A meta-analysis of 11 studies involving over 19,000 patients with T2D and obesity shows that bariatric surgery provides ...

Obesity surgery (also known as bariatric and metabolic surgery) is one of the most common reasons people engage in so-called "medical tourism"—where they travel to another country for a procedure ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not all adults with obesity will achieve their target weight loss with medications alone. Combining bariatric ...

Ahmedabad: Specialists treating obesity, and patients, are increasingly using technology, including artificial intelligence, ...

A new study suggests bariatric surgery may offer stronger long-term heart protection than GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro.

In a recent study published in the International Journal of Obesity, researchers discussed the pipeline of obesity pharmacotherapies. Obesity is a chronic disease affecting about 650 million ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being obese may increase the cost of surgery for men with prostate cancer -- at least the more traditional forms of the procedure, a new study suggests. Researchers found ...

Mark Twain once said, "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme." As a weight-loss surgeon for over 20 years, I have witnessed the new obesity medications with both anticipation and ...

If childhood obesity is an ‘epidemic,’ how far should doctors go to treat it? Alexandra Duarte, who had bariatric surgery at 16, with her mother, Gabriela Velez.Credit...Kholood Eid for The New York ...

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Following functional endoscopic sinus surgery, adults with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps and obesity had a lower risk for revision surgery if they were prescribed a GLP-1 receptor agonist, ...