A very high proportion of children who are having surgery are overweight or obese, and because of the excess weight have a greater chance of experiencing problems associated with the surgery, ...

More obese Americans are choosing to have surgical procedures to help them lose weight. In fact, the number of obesity surgeries in the U.S. has quadrupled since 2000 to 171,000 cases in 2005 from ...

Fat people are less likely to die when they go under the knife than people of a "healthy" weight, according to new research. The finding that overweight older adults face a lower risk of dying after ...

NEW ORLEANS — In the Comparison of Surgery vs Medicine for Indian Diabetes (COSMID) study of Asian Indians with type 2 diabetes who were mainly below guideline-recommended body mass index (BMI) levels ...

A long-term study by Monash University researchers - the first of its kind - has found that gastric band surgery has significant benefits for moderately overweight people with type 2 diabetes.

HOUSTON – Weight loss surgery has helped American men and women fight morbid obesity for years, butbariatric operations have not been available to obese teens, until now. That meant teenagers waging ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) --Bariatric surgery can help teens struggling with their weight get healthier -- physically. However, the mental and emotional problems many experience, due at least in part to being ...

This small study found sustained weight loss of 10% of body weight in patients who were overweight but not obese, along with improvements in glycemic control and quality of life that exceeded patients ...

Actress Carnie Wilson comes to Tulsa Thursday to dedicate a center at SouthCrest Hospital that specializes in surgery for people who are overweight. Wilson made the surgery popular when she had it in ...

Nearly half of all heart surgery patients may experience blood sugar levels high enough to require temporary insulin treatment after their operation, even though they've never had diabetes, according ...