Obesity surgery (also known as bariatric and metabolic surgery) is one of the most common reasons people engage in so-called ...

Experts have issued new guidelines for patients considering weight loss surgery abroad as medical tourism continues to grow.

Obesity surgery (also known as bariatric and metabolic surgery) is one of the most common reasons for people to do so called ‘medical tourism’ – where they travel to another country to have the ...

C Bon Secours. Many people never see a doctor until something is wrong. But when it comes to taking care of your health, ...

A new study has confirmed that weight loss or bariatric surgery is safe and very effective, and, for a large percentage of people who were diabetic before the surgery, meant that they didn’t ...

Don’t get cheap weight loss surgery abroad, doctors have warned ...

Adults with obesity who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass achieved a greater excess BMI loss at 10 years compared with those ...

I was their only parent.” In 2020, Neely underwent bariatric surgery at Duke Regional Hospital, which was covered after a ...

Getting a bariatric surgery can be life-changing. However, the surgery alone does not guarantee long-term success. To achieve ...

At the 15-year mark, patients who had bariatric surgery were 72 percent less likely to have developed major complications like liver cancer than similar patients who didn’t have surgery.

Overweight patients are being targeted by medical tourism companies and often don't understand the risks, doctors say.