Researchers from NYU Langone Health and NYC Health + Hospitals discovered patients who had one of the bariatric procedures lost an average 58 pounds after two years, compared to 12 pounds for ...

May 28—An Odessa firefighter is on unpaid administrative leave after being accused of seducing a teenager he was teaching at Odessa College. According to an Odessa Police Department report, a 17 ...

Dr. Alan Wittgrove, a world-renowned bariatric surgeon and Del Mar resident, was honored April 12 by his peers at the California/Nevada chapter of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric ...

GLP-1 medications are reshaping the weight management landscape — and beginning to take a bite out of bariatric surgery volumes in hospitals. Between 2022 and 2023, bariatric surgery rates fell ...

Lompoc Valley Medical Center’s General and Bariatric Surgeon, Dr. Christopher Taglia, FACS, FASMBS, will speak about “New Advances in Weight Loss Treatment” during a free public lecture Feb. 19. Dr.

Jeffrey Monash, MD, a bariatric surgeon at Tucson Bariatric, told the publication that patient Jeremy Marine’s surgery had been “extraordinarily difficult and prolonged.” Mr. Marine remained in the ...

Farah Husain, MD, a bariatric surgeon at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, said her hospital has seen a small uptick in surgical patients from 550 in 2023 to about 580 this year.

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Dr. David Davtyan, a renowned bariatric surgeon with over 30 years of experience, has been awarded the prestigious title of Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (FASMBS ...

Between 2022 and 2023, prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs soared 132.6% while bariatric surgery rates fell 25.6%, according to a new study from researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School and ...

In 2022, nearly 280,000 metabolic and bariatric procedures were performed in the United States, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

From January 2019 to March 2020, bariatric and general surgeon Maneesh Ailawadi, MD, allegedly caused the submission of false claims by billing EGD procedures using a CPT code without the necessary ...