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It is common knowledge that obesity surgery is on the rise but the latest statistics make chilling reading. Perhaps most surprising though is the fact that the same report, issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, shows that the cost of gastric bypass surgery is actually falling. In 1998 there were [...]

Gastric bypass is a term that you have most likely heard quite a bit about and really illustrates many related manners of weight loss surgical procedures. Many people who have undergone this surgery, together with celebrities, are extremely happy by this technique of weight loss. However, before you determine it is the right approach for [...]

Gastric bypass surgery has been around for well over fifty years now and, although it does carry risks the majority of patients are very satisfied with the outcome and enjoy a a dramatically improved standard of living.

If you’ve read anything about weight loss, you know that it’s a long term process that takes time. You’ve also heard that it’s taken you months and sometimes years to gain weight and expecting to lose it fast is not realistic. The problem however is that maybe you have a pair of pants or a [...]

Dr. Philip Solomon performs closed rhinoplasty or nose bridge tip surgery.   Patients who have these surgeries are often concerned about recovery times, which generally take about two weeks. “Many months of healing before your nose reaches its final new state,” says Dr. Solomon. This is important.  Patents need to go into such procedures with persistence and [...]

Gastric bypass surgery is the most commonly carried out operation for weight loss in the US with around 140,000 surgeries being carried out each year Undertaken for more than 50 years, hundreds of surgeons have grown up with gastric bypass surgery and have a very good understanding of both its risks and benefits. For many [...]

The cost of gastric bypass surgery varies considerably depending upon a whole host of factors including the type of surgery being undertaken and the hospital and surgeon being used, amongst other things, so trying to give any sort estimate is difficult. This said, as a ballpark figure, you can expect to pay anywhere from about [...]

As with adults the first line of attack for obesity in teenagers is normally a carefully controlled program of diet and exercise. In many cases however this does not do the trick and so many doctors will move on to supplement this treatment with drugs, commonly choosing a drug which has been used with limited [...]