Gastric bypass surgery is used to help people lose weight when eating and exercise aren’t enough. A new less invasive option, gastric banding, is helping people once scared off by the original Lap ...

In 2008, North Star Surgical Center in Lubbock, Texas, added a gastric lap-banding service line to its cadre of procedures. Though the service line has been put on hold temporarily, due to the ...

Allergan Inc. is looking to get Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its Lap-Band weight-loss device to more patients and hopes to see expanded health insurance coverage, according to its ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A form of weight-loss surgery called gastric banding appears safe and effective for severely obese teenagers, according to a study at one medical center. The findings, ...

A long-term study by Monash University researchers - the first of its kind - has found that gastric band surgery has significant benefits for moderately overweight people with type 2 diabetes.

The FDA will decide whether 14-year-olds should get the weight loss surgery. May 25, 2011— -- Jacy Johns had tried everything to lose weight -- from the Slim Fast diet to Special K. She hit the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A type of minimally invasive weight-loss surgery called gastric banding not only helps morbidly obese teenagers lose a substantial amount of weight, but also leads to ...

For those who are at least 40 pounds overweight - depending on your BMI (body mass index) and co-morbidities - or hundreds of pounds overweight adjustable gastric banding may be the perfect weapon in ...

A study of the two most popular weight-loss surgeries found obese diabetics who had gastric bypass surgery lost 64 percent of their excess weight after a year, compared with 36 percent in those ...

The band's popularity has slipped in recent years. — -- When gastric band surgery was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2001, it was considered a key weapon in the fight ...

Several studies have demonstrated that the short-term weight loss achieved by Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is greater than that achieved by laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. This notion is ...

Allergan reached a settlement in the whistleblower suit brought against its former Lap-Band product business, according to the DOJ. Here’s what you should know. 1. Allergan allegedly defrauded the ...