1. Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Surgery Improves Obesity-Related Hea Newswise — Surgeons at Western Pennsylvania Hospital report that laparoscopic surgery for obesity, known as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, effectively improves unhealthy conditions associated with severe ... Read More Last Modified: November 6, 2004 2. Man who weighed 1,072 pounds recovering from obesity surgery SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A man who weighed about half a ton when he was admitted to a hospital was recovering Wednesday from obesity surgery. Patrick Deuel, 42, underwent the procedure to reduce the size ... Read More Last Modified: November 6, 2004 3. Surgery Improves Health Conditions in the Obese??? The eight to ten million people morbidly obese in this country, those weighing 100 or more pounds over a healthy weight, may have found a way to reduce the risk of health concerns associated wit ... Read More Last Modified: November 6, 2004 4. Obesity Surgery Could Stop Diabetes Their report - an analysis of 136 studies - suggests that in some cases, the drastic operations may alter the patient's body chemistry itself and relieve conditions that can lead to heart attacks ... Read More Last Modified: October 26, 2004 5. Obesity surgery can cure diabetes, high blood pressure Obesity surgery helps patients do more than shed weight -- it often cures their diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, researchers say. The research -- an analysis of 136 studies -- foun ... Read More Last Modified: October 26, 2004 6. Half-ton man on 1,200-calorie-a-day diet seeks gastric surgery SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Patrick Deuel is on a diet. He's down to about 700 pounds now. He hopes to lose 400 more. When he entered the hospital in Sioux Falls, he weighed more than half a ton - ... Read More Last Modified: September 28, 2004 7. KGBT 4 - TV Harlingen, TX: Liposuction Introduced in the U.S. in the early 1980s, liposuction, also called liposculpture, lipoplasty, or suction lipectomy, is a cosmetic surgery technique developed by cosmetic surgeons to remove stubborn f ... Read More Last Modified: September 28, 2004 8. Half-Ton Man Seeks Gastric Surgery Patrick Deuel is on a diet. He's down to about 700 pounds now. He hopes to lose 400 more. When he entered the hospital in Sioux Falls, he weighed more than half a ton _ a disaster Deuel blames o ... Read More Last Modified: September 27, 2004 9. Workplace insurance covers weight loss surgery ORLANDO, Fla. Life is looking up for Brandi Ivey. She is holding down a full-time job, taking online classes for a college degree in accounting and exercising six days a week with hourlong walks in he ... Read More Last Modified: September 27, 2004 10. NBA Utah Jazz Orthopedic Surgeon Teams Up With World-Leading Wei Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lyle Mason who kept both Karl Malone and John Stockton in their game and continues as the official Jazz surgeon, is focusing on a new and more urgent national health issue--obes ... Read More Last Modified: September 20, 2004

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