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Metabolic or bariatric surgery was significantly more effective than medical management in treating type 2 diabetes in patients with milder...
June 2019
West Virginia and Mississippi may have the two highest obesity rates in the nation but rank 25th and 45th in...
November 2018
Patients with severe obesity who get weight-loss surgery cut their risk of developing coronary heart disease by about 40 percent,...
November 2018
People with diabetes and severe obesity who had metabolic surgery were much less likely to die from diabetes or any...
November 2018
New Cleveland Clinic Study Shows Bariatric Surgery May Have Protective Effect After Heart Failure Patients who have previously undergone weight-loss...
November 2018
The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and groups including The Obesity Society (TOS) and Academy for Nutrition...
November 2015
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Representatives from 35 major health and medical organizations including the American Diabetes Association...
October 2015
It Starts Now, a nationwide competition that seeks short videos and films about obesity in America, begins today. Entries are...
May 2015
Significant new scientific evidence published over the last four years has prompted three major medical societies to change its guidance...
April 2013