http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The LAP-BAND weight loss procedure is safe and effective in an expanded group of patients, not just in people who are morbidly obese. This conclusion is reported in a new study published in the scientific journal Obesity. The findings indicate that the procedure may help to intervene before obesity becomes life threatening to patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-weight-loss-surgery-safe-effective.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:05 EST news286645911 Fueled by a $5 billion dollar industry that continues to grow 5 to 8 percent annually, juicing is being promoted by many as a useful strategy for weight loss. But the trend of extracting the liquid from produce is not widely recommended within the medical and surgical weight-loss community. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-juicing-trend-pulp-fiction-dietitian.html Health Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:23:58 EST news286446101 Gastric bypass surgery can drastically reduce the body weight of obese individuals in a short timeframe. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the surgery also leads to early remission of type 2 diabetes in the vast majority of patients. Researchers report online April 11 in Cell Reports, published by Cell Press, the discovery of gene-expression alterations in individuals who underwent the surgery compared with obese individuals who did not. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-weight-loss-surgery-waists-affects.html Medical research Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:00:13 EST news284897961 (Medical Xpress)—A new weight-loss programme available on the NHS for severely-obese individuals offers a safer, more cost-effective remedy than gastric surgery, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-low-energy-liquid-diet-effective-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:05:17 EST news278759064 (Medical Xpress)—This time of year many people make resolutions to live a healthier lifestyle, exercise more, lose weight and eat better. For the adolescents who are extremely obese in this country, diet and exercise alone often are not enough to get their weight down. Some of those teens will require weight loss surgery to improve their overall health. According to a recent study published in the January print issue of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, bariatric surgery in extremely obese adolescents also was shown to be beneficial in helping to reverse previously undiagnosed cardiovascular abnormalities believed to be linked to severe obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bariatric-surgery-extremely-obese-adolescents.html Surgery Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:50:01 EST news277972681 Women should wait at least 12 months before trying for a baby following weight loss surgery and need further advice and information on reproductive issues, suggests a new evidence-based literature review published today in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-women-months-baby-weight-loss.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:00:06 EST news277055984 (Medical Xpress)—Over the past few years, weight loss surgery has become an increasingly popular option to treat Type 2 diabetes, but Dr. Vivian Fonseca, professor of medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine, says it is not a cure-all.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-surgery-easy-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:00:01 EST news275042665 Bariatric surgery, which significantly curtails the amount of food a person can eat, is the most effective treatment against obesity and is being recognized as a potentially valuable tool in the fight against diabetes related to obesity. It is being performed on increasing numbers of people worldwide, including teenagers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-bariatric-surgery-bones.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:45:20 EST news271071906 Kids born to moms who have lost a substantial amount of weight after undergoing bariatric surgery have fewer cardiovascular risk factors than their siblings who were born before the weight loss surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-obese-moms-birth-heart-healthier.html Surgery Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:00:01 EST news270697388 Patients who undergo bariatric weight loss surgery may be at increased risk for substance use (drug use, alcohol use and cigarette smoking) following surgery, particularly among patients who undergo laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery who appear to be at increased risk for alcohol use following surgery, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-weight-loss-surgery-substance.html Surgery Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:00:04 EST news269514600 (Medical Xpress)—A new analysis of the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study shows that despite considerably greater and sustained weight loss than conventionally treated controls, patients treated with bariatric surgery continued to use just as much inpatient and non-primary outpatient care than the controls during a 20 year follow-up period. However, cost savings in the surgery group were seen for medications that treat diabetes and cardiovascular disease between year 7 and 20, resulting in lower overall drug costs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-drug-years-bariatric-surgery.html Health Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:42:49 EST news267266562 Severely obese patients who had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery had significant weight loss that was sustained for an average of 6 years after the surgery and also experienced frequent remission and lower incidence of diabetes, hypertension, and abnormal cholesterol levels, compared to participants who did not have the surgery, according to a study in the September 19 issue of JAMA, and theme issue on obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-long-term-gastric-bypass-surgery-higher.html Diabetes Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:08:05 EST news267185279 Doctors are reporting a new benefit from weight-loss surgery — preventing diabetes. Far fewer obese people developed that disease if they had stomach-shrinking operations rather than usual care to try to slim down, a large study in Sweden found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-obesity-surgery-diabetes.html Diabetes Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:28:29 EST news264875303 An international study, led by researchers at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU) at the University of Southampton, has found that obese patients who undergo bariatric surgery are not at an increased risk of broken bones in the first few years after the operation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-bariatric-surgery-broken-bones.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:20:02 EST news263489566 A small group of scientists gathered last week at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to share ideas about a medical mystery: the increasing evidence that some types of weight loss surgery affect not just the stomach, but the brain as well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-alcohol-abuse-weight-loss-surgery.html Addiction Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:29:42 EST news262949368 (Medical Xpress) -- Type 2 diabetes often reverses after modified weight loss surgery, especially when the duration of diabetes is less than 10 years, a new study finds. The results will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-bariatric-surgery-remission-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:30:01 EST news259844562 (HealthDay) -- Black women without diabetes lost about 10 percent less weight than white women after having a weight-loss procedure called gastric bypass surgery, but having diabetes helped increase their weight loss, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-role-success-weight-loss-surgery.html Surgery Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:40:01 EST news259405514 (HealthDay) -- Seven years after they underwent weight-loss surgery, patients as a whole fared better on several measurements of their risk of cardiac problems, a new study finds, and many returned to normal levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-weight-loss-surgery-heart-years.html Surgery Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:02:07 EST news259405311 Adults who had a common bariatric surgery to lose weight had a significantly higher risk of alcohol use disorders (AUD) two years after surgery, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health research consortium. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-weight-loss-surgery-alcohol-disorders.html Addiction Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:00:02 EST news259237776 (HealthDay) -- Increased body mass index (BMI) correlates with non-specific foot pain in the general population, and with chronic plantar heel pain in a non-athletic population, according to a meta-analysis published online April 13 in Obesity Reviews. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-high-bmi-tied-non-specific-foot.html Health Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:30:03 EST news254421262 (Medical Xpress) -- Oesophageal cancer is a very serious form of cancer that, if not fatal, requires extensive surgery. A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that when serious complications arise after surgery for oesophageal cancer, many patients suffer other health problems, such as breathlessness, fatigue, insomnia and eating problems, for five years afterwards. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-complications-oesophageal-surgery-health-problems.html Cancer Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:35:06 EST news252653692 (Medical Xpress) -- Patients seeking a weight-loss surgery that does not require an implanted device or permanent change to their anatomy, have a new clinical trial option at UC San Diego Health System. Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery, and his team, now offer gastric plication, a novel surgery that folds the stomach into a smaller, more compact size. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-weight-loss-surgery-stomach-smaller.html Surgery Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:48:54 EST news250764419 (HealthDay) -- Obese chronic kidney disease patients who undergo surgery to achieve weight loss do not face a particularly dangerous rate of complications as a result, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-weight-loss-surgery-safe-kidney-disease.html Surgery Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:20:01 EST news249844065 Today, about one in five children in the United States are obese. That means that in just one generation alone the number of obese kids in this country has quadrupled. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-bariatric-surgery-adolescents-obesity-related-diseases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:08:05 EST news247230473 Weight loss surgery is not a cure for type 2 diabetes, but it can improve blood sugar control, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Surgery. Whereas some previous studies have claimed that up to 80 per cent of diabetes patients have been cured following gastric bypass surgery, researchers at Imperial College London found that only 41 per cent of patients achieve remission using more stringent criteria. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-scientists-reassess-weight-loss-surgery.html Surgery Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:16:13 EST news244894564 Are you scheduled for heart bypass surgery or weight loss surgery? You might want to find out just how frequently different hospitals in your area are performing those procedures before deciding where to go. A new study finds that hospitals with higher surgical volumes for certain procedures are less likely to cause unintentional serious injuries to hospitalized patients when compared to those hospitals that perform the procedures less often. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-surgeries-hospitals.html Other Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:50:01 EST news234087945 The government should have the right to remove severely obese children from their parents' home and place them in foster care, two US doctors argued in a controversial editorial published Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-state-obese-kids-parents-doctors.html Health Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:32:00 EST news229789906 People who have had gastric bypass surgery or other bariatric weight-loss surgery have an even higher increased risk of breaking bones than previously found. These study findings will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-bariatric-surgery-linked-fracture.html Other Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:20:06 EST news226459152 Low testosterone levels and symptoms of male sexual dysfunction due to obesity may be reversible with weight loss after bariatric surgery, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-surgery-related-weight-loss-men-reverses.html Medical research Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:00:03 EST news226413989 John Gunstad, an associate professor in Kent State University's Department of Psychology, and a team of researchers have discovered a link between weight loss and improved memory and concentration. The study shows that bariatric surgery patients exhibited improved memory function 12 weeks after their operations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-weight-loss-memory.html Other Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:52:24 EST news221845929