Bariatric surgery was linked to better employment rates and productivity in the initial years after the procedure, but ...

More New Zealanders are being lured by "medical tourism", but experts here warn about the sometimes near deadly consequences.

Obesity is a growing crisis in India, significantly increasing the risk of at least 12 cancers. Fat cells actively promote ...

Use of weight loss drugs before bariatric surgery has surged sixteen fold, suggesting a new direction in the treatment of ...

The Lancet Commission’s new clinical definition of obesity may identify patients missed by BMI and strengthen the cases for ...

Weight-loss experts explain why combining GLP-1 medications with bariatric surgery may be the most effective approach to ...

At 293 pounds, Stormie Fish couldn’t carry her toddler from the parking lot at Northmoreland Park in Allegheny Township into ...

New research findings show a significant increase in the use of weight loss drugs among patients undergoing metabolic and ...

Hypothyroidism was associated with increased risks for readmission, incisional hernia, and biliary disease in patients undergoing bariatric surgery.

Doctors at a private hospital took too long to transfer a woman to higher level care when she started deteriorating after ...

Among patients without type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 drug use before weight-loss surgery increased to 23% in the fourth quarter of ...

Obesity in India is driving a surge in diabetes and hypertension, with millions affected. Bariatric surgery emerges as a viable treatment when convent ...