Sep
7
Ten-Fold Rise In Obesity Surgery In England Since 2000
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The use of bariatric or weight loss surgery has increased ten-fold in NHS hospitals in England since 2000, finds a study published on bmj.com. One reason for this rapid rise is increased demand from obese patients as they become more aware of surgery as a viable treatment option, suggest the researchers…
Aug
27
The number of NHS operations for bariatric or weight loss surgery has increased tenfold in England since 2000 say researchers, who suggest the main reason is because obese patients are more aware of it as a viable treatment option…
Aug
20
Ethicon Endo-Surgery Introduces HARMONIC ACE(R) 45 Cm Curved Shears Designed For Extended Reach In Obese Patients
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Ethicon Endo-Surgery (EES), has announced the introduction of a new addition to its HARMONIC(R) line of surgical devices, the HARMONIC ACE® 45 cm Curved Shears. HARMONIC ACE® 45 cm, designed to extend the reach of surgeons for minimally invasive procedures involving obese patients, is 25 percent longer (or 9cm) than the standard length HARMONIC ACE® device…
Aug
4
Orexigen® Therapeutics COR-BMOD Study Published In The Journal Obesity
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Orexigen® Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX) announced the online publication of results from its COR-BMOD trial of Contrave® (naltrexone SR/bupropion SR) in the journal Obesity. The COR-BMOD trial evaluated intensive behavior modification (BMOD) plus Contrave32 (32mg naltrexone sustained release (SR)/360mg bupropion SR) compared to BMOD plus placebo, in 793 overweight or obese patients…
Jul
30
Hospitals Accomodate Obese Patients By Purchasing New, Larger Equipment
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Hospitals are accommodating the increasing number of obese patients by buying larger medical equipment, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The new purchases are “eating into capital budgets and driving growth in the plus-sized medical equipment market. …
Jul
29
Obese patients lose weight on new Orexigen drug (Reuters)
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Reuters - Overweight volunteers who took Orexigen’s experimental drug Contrave, designed to reduce cravings, lost about 13 pounds (6 kg) over a year, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Jul
16
Reuters - The first new prescription weight-loss pill in more than a decade failed to win backing from U.S. health advisers, who said safety concerns about the drug outweighed its ability to help obese patients shed pounds.
Jul
5
Obese Patients At Higher Risk Of Adverse Events After Hip Reconstruction, Australia
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Obese and morbidly obese patients are at significantly greater risk of complications after a total hip reconstruction than non-obese patients, according to research published in the Medical Journal of Australia…
Jun
23
Ethicon Endo-Surgery Introduces HARMONIC ACE(R) 45 Cm Curved Shears At ASMBS
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Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (EES), introduced a new addition to its HARMONIC® line of surgical devices, the HARMONIC ACE® 45 cm Curved Shears. HARMONIC ACE® 45 cm, designed to extend the reach of surgeons for minimally invasive procedures involving obese patients, is 25 percent longer (or 9cm) than the standard length HARMONIC ACE® device…
Jun
16
Robotic Kidney Transplantation New Option For Obese Patients
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Surgeons at the University of Illinois at Chicago report the first successful robotic kidney transplant in a morbidly obese patient. The case study appears online in the American Journal of Transplantation. The patient, a 29-year-old woman with a body mass index of 41, had been on dialysis for five years while waiting for a deceased donor kidney…