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Metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) is associated with improved outcomes in patients with psoriasis, according to a review published online Jan. 12 in BMC Surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-metabolic-bariatric-surgery-psoriasis-outcomes.html Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:33:44 EST news687630781 People who have used GLP-1 medications—better known by their brand names like Ozempic, Mounjaro or Wegovy—have likely seen meaningful changes in their health, such as improved blood sugar, lower blood pressure and weight loss. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-qa-weight-loss-bariatric-surgery.html Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:50:03 EST news682857656 Combining bariatric surgery with weight loss medication can help people who need to lose more weight post-surgery, Monash University and Alfred Health-led research has found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-weight-loss-drug-bariatric-surgery.html Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:31:05 EST news682011062 More than 37 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, a chronic disorder affecting the body's ability to regulate and use sugar. According to the CDC, it's the country's seventh leading cause of death. Type 2 diabetes can be treated with lifestyle changes and medications, including insulin, a sugar-regulating hormone. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-bariatric-surgery-pill-bottle.html Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:17:56 EDT news680516272 A large Cleveland Clinic study has found that people with obesity and type 2 diabetes who undergo weight-loss surgery live longer and face fewer serious health problems compared with those treated with GLP-1 receptor agonist medicines alone. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-bariatric-surgery-weight-loss-greater.html Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:00:05 EDT news677172341 For patients with inflammatory bowel disease and obesity, bariatric surgery is associated with improved inflammatory bowel disease-related outcomes, according to a study published online July 22 in BJS Open. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-bariatric-surgery-linked-ibd-outcomes.html Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:25:02 EDT news675012301 Weight-loss interventions, including gastric bypass surgery and drugs that prevent dietary fat absorption, can be invasive or have negative side effects. Now, researchers have developed edible microbeads made from green tea polyphenols, vitamin E and seaweed that, when consumed, bind to fats in the gastrointestinal tract. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-fat-microbeads-drug-free-weight.html Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:00:01 EDT news674898601 Eight different vitamins make up the B complex, and they all play crucial roles in the body, such as producing energy, keeping our nervous system healthy, and supporting cell development. If eight sounds like a lot to keep track of, it might help to know that most research focuses on five in particular: thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), folate (B9), and cobalamin (B12). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-vitamins-1.html Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:23:05 EDT news672996181 More and more research suggests that the copper in your diet could play a bigger role in brain health than we once believed. A recent study found that older Americans who ate more copper-rich foods did better on memory and concentration tests. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-copper-diet-memory-loss.html Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:20:01 EDT news672657069 Patients prescribed drugs to help them lose weight may experience a rebound in weight gain after halting their prescription, finds a meta-analysis published in BMC Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-anti-obesity-medications-weight-rebound.html Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:00:01 EDT news672307279 More than 40% of Americans are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And the epidemic isn't slowing down, resulting in millions of people suffering from health conditions that may be associated with obesity, such as asthma, heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, and sleep apnea. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-im-bariatric-surgeon-glp-surgery.html Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:50:01 EDT news672050845 Research led by the Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany has found that bile acid diversion in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) reduces colorectal tumor growth and metastasis independent of weight loss, potentially reshaping future cancer treatment approaches. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-rerouted-bile-acid-thwarts-tumor.html Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:30:01 EDT news670498402 Sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass were associated with about five-times more weight loss than weekly injections of GLP-1 receptor agonists semaglutide or tirzepatide, at the end of two years, according to a new head-to-head real-world study presented today at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-bariatric-surgery-superior-glp-drugs.html Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:10:04 EDT news669383840 Weight-loss surgeries for adolescents increased 15% in the U.S. between 2021 and 2023, even as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved effective new weight-loss medications for this age group, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. Their findings, published in The Journal of Pediatrics, shed light on how severe obesity is being treated in teenagers, the fastest-growing age group with this condition. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-adolescents-weight-loss-surgery.html Mon, 05 May 2025 13:01:04 EDT news665668862 Gastric bypass is the most clinically and cost-effective form of interventional surgery for people living with severe obesity, reveals new research. Results of the By-Band-Sleeve trial are published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The trial was led by the University of Bristol (U.K.). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-gastric-bypass-outperforms-surgeries-severe.html Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:29:56 EDT news662729387 The long-term outcomes of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) may differ in intention-to-treat (ITT) and per protocol (PP) populations, according to a study published online Feb. 19 in JAMA Surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-years-roux-en-gastric-bypass.html Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:50:08 EST news659626404 Bariatric surgery is safe and induces substantial weight loss that reduces the need for diabetes medications, a Monash University and University of Sydney-led Australian study has found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-bariatric-surgery-safe-diabetes-medication.html Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:02:46 EST news658508560 For patients with diabetes undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG), overall expenditures decrease in the postsurgical period, with no differences seen following the first six months after surgery, according to a study published online Jan. 28 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-patients-diabetes-health-expenses-roux.html Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:13:48 EST news657296026 Gastric balloons—silicone balloons filled with air or saline and placed in the stomach—can help people lose weight by making them feel too full to overeat. However, this effect can eventually wear off as the stomach becomes used to the sensation of fullness. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-inflatable-gastric-balloon-people-weight.html Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:10:09 EST news652450201 All animals possess some capacity for repairing and replacing the lining of their intestines, a process called intestinal regeneration. In mammals, including humans, this constant but relatively minor turnover of cells helps the intestine keep up with the daily requirements of eating. It is accomplished by stem cells that originate in intestinal crypts—microscopic depressions in the intestinal wall. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-snake-reveals-insights-human-intestinal.html Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:32:48 EDT news648743564 The cost of taking weekly injections of popular anti-obesity medications liraglutide (Saxenda) or semaglutide (Wegovy) exceeds that of metabolic and bariatric surgery in less than a year, according to a recent analysis published in the journal Surgical Endoscopy. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-analysis-reveals-higher-anti-obesity.html Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:00:09 EDT news647535604 Patients in nearly half the country can't get appointments with specialist teams for weight-loss support and care, including treatment with drugs such as semaglutide. And in nearly one in five local health areas, patients don't have access to a bariatric surgery service, reports Elisabeth Mahase. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-obesity-treatments-restricted-cash-poor.html Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:30:01 EDT news645266341 People with obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery were more likely to control their high blood pressure over a 1-to-5 year follow-period compared to those who managed their high blood pressure with medications and lifestyle management, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2024, held in Chicago, September 5–8, 2024. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-analysis-weight-loss-surgery-people.html Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:00:01 EDT news644745181 Fewer Australians are having bariatric surgery, and a new report shows the results for those who do are mostly positive, including significant weight loss and big improvements for those with diabetes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-australians-bariatric-surgery.html Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:28:50 EDT news643469326 A new study finds that pre-surgery weight plays a role in how much weight loss occurs after gastric bypass. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-intake-reduction-pre-surgery-body.html Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:13:04 EDT news638111582 Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, a type of weight-loss surgery, kept type 2 diabetes in remission for up to 15 years and most of the weight off for up to 20 years in one of the largest long-term studies of patients undergoing the procedure. The study was presented at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-term-effectiveness-gastric-bypass-diabetes.html Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:09:24 EDT news637409359 Patients with pre-diabetes and severe obesity who had metabolic and bariatric surgery were 20 times less likely to develop full-blown type 2 diabetes over the course of 15 years than patients with the condition who did not have surgery, according to a new study presented at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-metabolic-bariatric-surgery-pre-diabetes.html Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:00:02 EDT news637241401 Systematic reviews of medical literature between 2020 and 2024 show that bariatric surgery, also known as metabolic or weight-loss surgery, produces the greatest and most sustained weight loss compared to GLP-1 receptor agonists and lifestyle interventions. The study was presented today at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-bariatric-surgery-effective-durable-obesity.html Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:00:02 EDT news637242421 The type of weight loss surgery women undergo before becoming pregnant may affect how much weight their children gain in the first three years of life, suggests a study presented at ENDO 2024, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Boston, Mass. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-weight-loss-surgery-women-pregnancy.html Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:50:01 EDT news636625918 Health care professionals attending certain smoke-producing endoscopic gastrointestinal procedures, including a procedure that uses electrical current to remove polyps, could be exposed to dangerous toxin levels equivalent to smoking a cigarette during each procedure and face "significant health risks" over their careers, according to a study scheduled for presentation at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2024. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-gi-procedures-dangerous.html Thu, 09 May 2024 00:10:01 EDT news634402204