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

Bariatric surgery involves surgical procedures that help with weight loss by altering the digestive system. It works by reducing the size of the stomach or changing how the body absorbs nutrients, ...

Researchers compared health care costs 3 years before bariatric surgery and 5.5 years after surgery in adults with type 2 diabetes and a BMI of 35 kg/m 2 or higher in the Kaiser Permanente ...

Welcoming a newborn is something many couples dream of doing, but it can get complicated when conceiving becomes a roadblock. Infertility affects one in six people, but obesity can also be a problem.

This relationship has led researchers to explore how weight-loss interventions, particularly bariatric surgery, might protect and improve liver function. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects ...

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver ...

Weight loss surgery can prevent people with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis from developing major complications of ...