While these drugs can help patients shed pounds, they are not a permanent solution. Most people regain nearly 70% of lost ...

GLP-1 medications are reshaping the weight management landscape — and beginning to take a bite out of bariatric surgery volumes in hospitals. Between 2022 and 2023, bariatric surgery rates fell 25.6% ...

Bariatric surgery is an operation that changes the way the body absorbs food. Individuals who undergo bariatric surgery typically lose a large amount of weight (between 40 – 75% of excess body weight ...

HealthGrades has released new ratings of hospital-based bariatric programs, covering 468 hospitals in 19 states where data is publicly available, according to a release by HealthGrades. The ratings ...

Since she lost her job this summer as a bariatric surgeon, Lana Nelson, DO, has a phone message that tells callers, "I'm probably out on the trails" hiking near Grand Junction, Colorado. For 19 years ...

Led by the renowned bariatric surgeon Dr. Amit Taggar, the family-owned practice marks one year of patient-centered, ...

Roller Weight Loss & Advanced Surgery, a Fayetteville-based bariatric surgery clinic, recently invested about $8 million to ...

Indiana Regional Medical Center has earned national accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Metabolic and ...

Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound), were originally approved for type 2 diabetes before their obesity indications ...