Scurvy, a now-rare disease best associated with sailors' lack of fresh fruit and vegetables on long sea voyages, is a ...

Heart bypass operations have gotten safer, but not everyone is benefiting equally: New data shows that Black patients face a ...

Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson recently marked a new milestone: surgeons performing the hospital’s 10,000th bariatric ...

Vanessa Feltz says ‘I would not have had the surgery’ if she’d known about Ozempic - ‘We don’t know what the long-term ...

Gastrojejunostomy junction perforation is a rare yet critical complication associated with enteral tube placement, presenting unique challenges in patients with a history of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass ...

Newer weight loss drugs are cost effective in the long term only when combined with bariatric weight loss surgery, according ...

After weight loss surgery, your body goes through big changes. Not only do you lose weight, but the way your body takes in ...

First, bariatric surgery added two quality-adjusted life years and saved patients about $9,000 more each year compared to GLP-1s. Second, combining surgery and GLP-1s led to more benefits, with ...

In the weeks since, UC San Diego’s minimally invasive department has performed more than 20 surgeries with the Apple Vision ...

Making the decision to have weight loss surgery can feel overwhelming. The team at SSM Health Weight Management Services ...

A nonselective extracorporeal blood purification (EBP) device connected to the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit during surgery ...