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AFP - Britain’s National Health Service could save millions of pounds a year by offering more weight-loss surgery for obese patients, a medical study said Wednesday.

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…

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…

Reuters - Use of weight-loss surgery has increased 10-fold in hospitals in England since 2000 and those who have gastric bands fitted can reduce their risk of early death and cut health service costs, scientists said on Friday.

Reuters - Three-fourths of obese diabetics who had weight-loss surgery were able to quit taking diabetes drugs within six months of their operation, U.S. researchers said on Monday, citing a new study.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDay News) — Bariatric weight-loss surgery
in obese people with type 2 diabetes can have an unexpected, yet positive
side effect — nearly 3 out of 4 patients in one study were able to stop
taking their insulin and other diabetes medications within six months of
surgery.

LiveScience.com - In what could be a first for weight-loss surgery in the United
States, surgeons have removed 80 percent of a stomach through a patient’s mouth.
Previously, surgeons performing stomach-reduction surgery had to make a large
incision in the abdomen to remove the excess stomach.

Reuters - For weight-loss surgery, “Centers of Excellence” may not be any safer than their undistinguished peers, a study of 25 Michigan hospitals suggests.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) — Weight-loss surgery, also known as
bariatric surgery, in the state of Michigan has a relatively low rate of
serious complications, a new study suggests.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) — Weight-loss surgery, also known as
bariatric surgery, in the state of Michigan has a relatively low rate of
serious complications, a new study suggests.

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