Some providers have extended the use of gastric band surgery to patients with lower body mass indexes, following a recent FDA decision to lower the BMI threshold, according to a report by Mass Device.

In 2002, Paul Lesser weighed 385 pounds and was experiencing severe back problems from a herniated disc that impacted his quality of life. As a condition of treating him, his doctor insisted he ...

Gastric bypass surgery is used to help people lose weight when eating and exercise aren’t enough. A new less invasive option, gastric banding, is helping people once scared off by the original Lap ...

Patients who have had bariatric surgery may need to take dietary supplements and pay closer attention to their nutritional intake, a UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggests. The study, published ...

(HealthDay News) — A comparison of two of the most common types of weight loss surgery indicates that laparoscopic gastric bypass helps patients shed more excess pounds than adjustable gastric banding ...

Rohrscheib says he does nearly all gastric banding procedures these days – a procedure that involves wrapping a silicone band filled with saline around the top area of the stomach, creating a smaller ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding results in significant weight loss that is maintained for more than a decade, research shows [1]. The procedure, which cut excess weight ...

After New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly checked into a hospital for gastric-banding surgery this year, the issue of his weight suddenly reverberated in the national media three months later with ...

Weight-loss experts explain why combining GLP-1 medications with bariatric surgery may be the most effective approach to ...

The Lap-Band helped him lose the weight. But keeping it off? That’s on him. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is showing off a reported 85-pound weight loss after undergoing the adjustable gastric band ...

An Australian study has linked rapidly growing mycobacterium infections to gastric banding surgery, but no clear source has been identified, according to an article published online September 10 in ...