Lately, there's been more and more in the news about the success of the BioEnterics® LAP-BAND® System. Read some of the recent articles below.
Obesity surgery helps diabetics
Chicago – WEIGHT loss surgery can be especially helpful to patients with diabetes and can even help them reverse the disease, Australian researchers reported on Tuesday.
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The skinny on FAT
Bigger is not always better. Besides health problems aplenty, being obese also means putting up with rude questions, sidelong and a whole lot of hurt
By Wong Kim Hoh
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One out of four Malaysians overweight
www.chinaview.cn 2005-06-08 23:04:55
KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 (Xinhuanet) — Twenty seven percent of Malaysians suffer from obesity, Deputy Health Minister Abdul Latiff Ahmad said Wednesday.
New device takes on obesity market
By Barnaby J. Feder The New York Times
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2005
Ben Zuckerman, a 57-year-old bottling executive from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, was not surprised last year to find himself carrying more than 290 pounds on his 6-foot-1-inch frame.
Permanent Weight Loss With Minimal Invasive Surgery
World Record Holder for Laparoscopic Surgery (26,000 cases) and honorary laparoscopic surgeon to the President of India, Dr. Pradeep Chowbey...
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Drastic step to win battle of the bulge
Philippine Daily Inquirer article
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Surgeons Return from Bariatric Surgery Training Workshop in Australia
St. Luke's Department of Surgery sent six of its surgeons to Melbourne, Australia in November to a training workshop in laparoscopic adjustable gastric-band placement under the tutelage of renowned bariatric surgeon, Professor O'Brien.
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Care Group holds Annual Assembly
The Philippines Colesge of Emergency and Acute Care headed by Dr. Danilo Francisco, president, held its Annual Scientific Assembly at the AIM Conference Center, Corner of Benevidez and Trassiera Streets, Makati City.
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Living with the LAP-BAND®
by Joseph E. Chebli, M.D., Mary Ellen Sabatella RD, WLS Lifestyles Spring 2004
Living with the LAP-BAND® presents unique lifestyle adjustments and challenges. We will provide an overview of the dietary guidelines, role of exercise, adjustment schedule and potential complications.
New surgery puts squeeze on stomach — and weight
by Julie Davidow, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter 04/22/2004
Nickey Roderick can measure her weight loss in large numbers and awed friends and relatives. She can tell you she's lost 110 pounds in little over a year, that her family refers to her as "the incredible shrinking lady" and that her knees and back no longer ache when she walks.
Why the LAP-BAND® has not hit the mainstream
by Joseph E. Chebli, M.D., WLS Lifestyles Winter 2004
There are currently many options available to patients considering bariatric surgery. The operations can be classified into restrictive operations, malabsorptive operations and combinations restrictive/malabsorptive operations. Restrictive operations are operations that involve creation of a small gastric pouch.
Bound to beat hunger
by Chase Squires, Times Staff Writer, St. Petersburg Times 08/11/2003
On a Wednesday afternoon, a meeting room at Pasco Regional Medical Center is full of overweight people. There's a thin guy at the front of the room exposing some of the blunt truths about being dangerously overweight. Very overweight people tie their shoes off to the side – or even opt for sandals and Velcro – because they have difficulty bending over, he says.
Extreme Measures, Fighting the Obesity Epidemic (partial reprint)
by Maria Montoya, Staff Writer/The Times-Picayune 04/07/2003
At home on a Sunday evening, William "Gregg" Steverson sits on his maroon recliner contemplating his own girth. His slender, red-haired wife, Audra, wanders around the house cleaning and chatting with him as he flips mindlessly through the TV channels. She deserves more, he says, and he wishes he had the energy to get dressed up and take her dancing, or even go for a walk down by the levee. Instead, they'll spend another quiet weekend in here in their Belle Chasse home.
Gastric band a hit with rock singer
by In-Sung Yoo, USA TODAY 08/13/2002
Call it a case of video killing the overweight star. For Ann Wilson of the rock band Heart, it seemed her own figure would forever overshadow the sales figures. The hit singles and platinum records didn't matter. It was the age of MTV, where the visual appeal of a band was quickly becoming every bit as important as the music. Wilson frequently found herself draped from head to toe in black. At times, she was simply thrust behind Nancy, the skinnier of the two sisters, who was also in the band.
Band constricts the cravings, weight
by David Kiley, USA TODAY 05/09/2002
ANN ARBOR, Mich.- Seven months after my weight loss surgery, and I am down 75 pounds. That's exactly the rate I was hoping for. On Sept. 26, I had surgery at the Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Ga., to implant the Adjustable Gastric Band to help me lose the 200 pounds I want off my frame by July 11, 2003. That's my 40th birthday, and I plan to weigh about what I did when I was 18.