FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Weight-loss surgery is often the last option for people who've tried everything else. A procedure with dramatic results is offering promise to many, and doctors say it's safer ...

The two most common obesity surgeries – gastric bypass and gastric sleeve – have few short-term complications and are equivalent in that sense. These are the findings of a study conducted at the ...

Bariatric surgery on an obese patient. There is no statistically significant difference in weight loss at 5 years after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy vs laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in ...

A new study that analyses the outcomes of many thousands of patients who had bariatric surgery reports that repeat hospitalization is much more likely with those who had gastric bypass surgery than ...

One small 2022 study looked at 44 people without type 2 diabetes who underwent bariatric surgery. Participants had either a gastric bypass or a gastric sleeve and experienced insufficient weight loss ...

In Switzerland, 5,500 operations to combat morbid obesity are conducted every year. Gastric bypasses and sleeve gastrectomy operations perform similarly: patients lose two-thirds of their excess ...

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 15, 2020 - A study involving tens of thousands of bariatric surgery patients found that gastric bypass patients were significantly more likely than gastric sleeve patients to end up ...

DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. -- A silicon balloon, which is less invasive than other weight loss procedures, made its debut at Midlands Clinic in 2016. ORBERA, an intragastric balloon, has been used for weight ...

As an increasing number of patients from the United Kingdom travel to Turkey for weight loss surgery in Turkey, including ...

Woman finally conquers her weight thanks to scar-free procedure. June 3, 2009 — -- Since puberty, 34-year-old Liliana Gomez-Guerrero had battled her weight. She literally has lost hundreds of ...

When Valerie Moskowitz contracted COVID-19, she worried about recovering from it. While she wasn’t hospitalized, she spent a month at home, struggling to breathe. As she recovered, she examined her ...