A common form of weight-loss surgery may cut the risk of colorectal cancer by altering levels of molecules called bile acids in the blood and small intestine. The findings could lead to new treatments ...

A new study from Lund University in Sweden raises questions about the efficacy of bariatric operations involving gastric bypass. The results show that the biggest metabolic changes happened directly ...

A new study from Lund University in Sweden raises questions about the efficacy of bariatric operations involving gastric bypass. The results show that the biggest metabolic changes happened directly ...

Bariatric surgeries are typically safe and require thorough preparation and follow-up. Life-threatening complications are rare, but possible.

Weight regain or not loosing enough weight after gastric bypass operation is very common. It has nothing to do with the patient. There are surgical operation that can revise the Gastric bypass (RNY) ...

(Reuters Health) - In a small long-term study, obese patients who had gastric bypass surgery were half as likely to die as those who didn’t have the surgery, researchers found. They saw little ...

Previous studies have shown that gastric bypass patients often find it difficult adjusting to physical and psychological changes after the procedure. An increased risk of depression, alcoholism, and ...

Growing up in the shadow of the star known as Pretty Woman cannot be easy. But it is even tougher when you are known as her ‘fat little sister’. Julia Roberts’s youngest sibling Nancy Motes claims ...