Bariatric surgery is a medical procedure that alters the digestive system to help individuals with obesity lose weight by limiting food intake, nutrient absorption, or both. Globally, obesity has ...

In this video I reflect on losing 150 pounds and nearly nine years of living with bariatric surgery. I share my before and ...

Scientists have discovered novel molecular mechanisms that contribute to recovery from diabetic kidney disease following ...

Bariatric surgery is called extreme far more often than obesity itself is. That imbalance reflects how this condition is still viewed, by the public and, at times, even within medicine.

Almost 60% of patients with obesity and preexisting anemia recovered from anemia within 6 months after bariatric surgery. Female sex, older age, and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) as the surgery type were ...

The proportion of patients taking a GLP-1 weight-loss drug following bariatric surgery increased substantially in recent years, although the timing of initiation after surgery varied widely, a large ...

In a retrospective study, semaglutide use leading up to bariatric surgery was not linked with greater weight loss a year after surgery. Rates of diabetes remission and complications were also ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. While the use of weight-loss drugs is on the rise, they join a suite of already-common interventions known as bariatric ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Free testosterone rose from 4.8 ng/dL before bariatric surgery to 8.4 ng/dL at 3 years. Change in testosterone ...

Nov. 19 -- TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Women who get pregnant after having weight-loss surgery have a lower risk of maternal and newborn complications than pregnant women who are obese, ...