NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln announced on July 10 the launch of a new bariatric surgery program meant to give patients ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- In order to maximize weight loss, a GLP-1 receptor agonist may be needed both before and after bariatric ...

Sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass were associated with about five-times more weight loss than weekly injections of GLP-1 ...

Introduction: Intraoperative indocyanine green (ICG) is increasingly used in surgery. In metabolic and bariatric surgery, it allows visualization of the tissues and blood supply to anastomoses in real ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln has launched a new bariatric surgery program at Lincoln Hospital, located in New York City. According to a July 10 news release, the new program will offer a range of ...

A new Irish health clinic is set to make ‘fat jabs’ more accessible to those battling obesity. But the top medic leading the ...

WeightWatchers appointed Dr. Kim Boyd as its chief medical officer on Tuesday. She will be the second person to ever hold the ...

They twist yesterday’s weather into tomorrow’s crisis, peddle apocalyptic forecasts that fizzle, and swap “global warming” for “climate change” whenever ...

In 2022, over 1 billion people were affected by obesity, driving innovation in therapeutic advancements. Emerging treatments focus on appetite contro ...

Medical tourism for bariatric and weight-reduction surgery needs urgent regulation to protect recipients' health, especially ...

Using a 2024 obesity framework, 18.8 percent of the adults previously been categorized as “overweight” now fit under the ...

Progress towards The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery's 2030 targets has been too slow and too patchy, particularly in low ...