Science news articles about 'obesity surgery'

NEW YORK (AP) -- Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Doctors are testing a new kind of obesity surgery without any cuts through the abdomen, snaking a tube as thick as a garden hose down the throat to snap ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too....

BOSTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests bariatric surgery is the most cost-effective way to treat obesity.

... of the stomach, through the vagina. This new "natural orifice" technique may be an attractive alternative for the 200,000 U.S. patients who undergo surgery for the treatment of obesity each year.

... feel satisfied with that particular food and can consume more of it. In the study, published online in Obesity Surgery, the research team looked at saliva production following repeated exposure to ...

Obese, but worried that surgery for it might kill you? The risk of that has dropped dramatically, and now is no greater than for having a gall bladder out, a hip replaced or most other major ...

Children born to women who had bariatric surgery for obesity may face a lower risk of severe obesity themselves, a study suggests.

... and reduce recovery time," says Dr. Bessler, director of laparoscopic surgery and director of the Center for Obesity Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and ...