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 ...

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.

CHEWING miserably on a Cheestrings, Whitney Ainscough looks down at her concave stomach and sighs. The single mum-of-three, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A type of minimally invasive weight-loss surgery called gastric banding not only helps morbidly obese teenagers lose a substantial amount of weight, but also leads to ...

To tighten the band and further reduce your stomach size, your doctor injects more saline solution into the band. To loosen it, your doctor uses a needle to remove liquid from the band. Gastric ...

Medicare covers lap band (laparoscopic banding) surgery if you meet the criteria. Your out-of-pocket costs can depend on the specific coverage you have and the services you need. Medicare generally ...

The FDA will decide whether 14-year-olds should get the weight loss surgery. May 25, 2011— -- Jacy Johns had tried everything to lose weight -- from the Slim Fast diet to Special K. She hit the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An older kind of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery could lead to severe complications over the long haul, Belgian researchers said Monday. The surgery works by placing a ...

In his fourth diary entry for our continuing series on teen obesity and surgery, Seattle-area teenager Stuart Logan writes about his daily life as he prepares for laparoscopic gastric-banding surgery, ...

A study of the two most popular weight-loss surgeries found obese diabetics who had gastric bypass surgery lost 64 percent of their excess weight after a year, compared with 36 percent in those ...