A new Arkansas state law that took effect Jan. 1 will expand access to bariatric surgery by requiring many health insurance ...

Known as "the silent killer" due to its lack of symptoms and reliable screening tests, ovarian cancer remains one of the ...

Gastric bypass patients had a lower rate of major adverse cardiac events than sleeve gastrectomy patients over 5 years. This was driven by a 40% risk reduction for myocardial infarction among gastric ...

Among patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D), those who underwent metabolic bariatric surgery experienced greater weight loss and reductions in A1c levels than patients who did not undergo ...

Metabolic bariatric surgery is associated with a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, as well as a lower risk of all-cause mortality, nephropathy, and retinopathy, when compared with ...

Teen Mom alum Kailyn Lowry is preparing to go back under the knife. “I’m getting my neck chopped off in two weeks so I’m, like, sort of waiting to get Botox until after that,” Lowry, 33, said on the ...

Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD, is an endocrinologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. As a physician-scientist in molecular biology, she uses her research on diabetes, lipid disorders, ...

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 ...

GLP-1 medications have become game changers for people trying to lose weight, but bariatric surgery is still superior when it comes to total and lasting weight loss, a new study has found. Patients ...