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Trinity community classes for March 2008
Quad Cities Onlines - 6-8 p.m., Monday, March 10 Learn the latest information about different types of bariatric surgeries available at Trinity, including lap-band surgery. Free. Diabetes Series Part 2 — New Tools to Help You Manage Diabetes 6-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 11

Adjustable gastric banding helps lose weight and remit diabetes
Pravda - The purpose of the new study – to find out whether patients do as well when they undergo the less drastic gastric lap-band surgery, a procedure in which a band is placed around the upper stomach, limiting the amount of passing food. Adjustable

Weight loss surgery ‘an option’
Age - The Australian Medical Association (AMA) wants the Victorian government to foot the bill for procedures like lap-band surgery to help young people shed excessive kilos. The proposal has been lodged with the Victorian government and comes as medical

Huckabee goes on Comedy Central
Arkansas Times - Did you get your lap-band surgery done in or out of state? Can I see the scar? If you’re elected President will you show off your scar like LBJ did his? 3. Isn’t it expensive to fly around the country for TV appearances and campaiging for President

Online Poll Question
WKYT 27 - I can’t wait till they day we are rid of karen engle and her band of thugs, on the I had surgery last year, and was only given enough to get me through the first week The people should vote these lap dogs out. There are the doctors who move into

Plea to tackle obesity
Shropshire Star - He believes laparoscopic surgery could be the answer to his prayers, but the NHS won’t approve funding and he cannot afford to Her GP has recommended that she has a gastric bypass which will make her stomach smaller. “Other people aspire to be a

Weight-loss surgery increasingly seen as treatment for diabetes
Boston Globe - She had gastric bypass surgery last June and now, at 235 pounds, the 38-year-old Chelsea resident said she feels study by Australian researchers, 60 obese, diabetic patients were randomly chosen to have laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery

Tricare now covers lap-band surgery
Air Force Times - Tricare officials stress that laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery is only for morbidly obese patients — those more than 100 Tricare will also cover the surgery if a patient has had an intestinal bypass or other surgery for obesity and

REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass and Sleeve
Market Wire - On Tuesday, January 15, 2008, at 6 pm CST, www.ORLive.com will broadcast two (2) bariatric procedures : a laparoscopic gastric bypass Michael Perez, MD, FACS, Medical Director Bariatric Surgery , Holy Cross Hospital will perform the gastric sleeve

Texas Bariatric Specialists
KXAN - Patel performs several weight loss procedures including laparoscopic gastric bypass which is considered to be the “Gold Standard”. Gastric Bypass Surgery- What is it? This procedure bypasses part of your stomach and small intestines so that fewer

Bay State panel issues report on weight-loss surgeries
Providence Business News - found a trend toward the use of combination procedures that not only restrict stomach size, as in laparoscopic banding, but also reroute part of the digestive tract, as in laparoscopic gastric bypass, the most commonly performed weight-loss surgery

FEATURED VIDEOS
KESQ News - Locks of Love: Six-Year-Old Donates Own Hair AFTER OPRAH: Teen Gastric Bypass Surgery (2/

Chris’ Corner_____
WBKO - And even though I didn’t set a number for total weight loss by the end of the Challenge, I was hoping for at least a 30 pound loss at the end of the 12 weeks – and this pretty much puts me on pace. Now that the cardio workouts have proven

Sorry Scots lucky to avoid a rout
Scotland on Sunday Online - The Scots were modestly better after the break despite the loss of captain Jason is perfectly correct in his assessment of Scotland, we’re dire. Serious surgery for bulk and even the bulk doesn’t seem to count for us when we have the weight