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Weight loss surgery improves sexual function in men
15/03/2009 – 20:00 | No Comment
Weight loss surgery improves sexual function in men

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sexual dysfunction that commonly occurs in morbidly obese men improves after weight loss surgery, according to a new study.
“Sexual dysfunction should be considered one of the numerous potentially reversible complications …

Screening women for ovarian cancer ‘feasible’ after test finds nine out of 10 tumours
14/03/2009 – 16:47 | No Comment
Screening women for ovarian cancer ‘feasible’ after test finds nine out of 10 tumours

Screening for ovarian cancer picked up 90 per cent of cases of the ’silent killer’ making widespread testing feasible scientists said.
Ovarian cancer is very difficult to detect early because of vague symptoms leading many experts …

Fire engine ‘called out to lift or help obese patient almost every day’
14/03/2009 – 16:34 | No Comment
Fire engine ‘called out to lift or help obese patient almost every day’

A fire engine lifts or helps an obese patient almost every day, new figures show, in calls which have cost the authorities £4million over the past five years.
The latest statistics reveal the burden placed on …

Gastric Bypass Patient Story
14/03/2009 – 16:23 | No Comment
Gastric Bypass Patient Story

Dr Francesco Gallo, a consultant paediatrician, who underwent a gastric bypass in 2006 has experienced profound improvements in several aspects of his life since he reduced his body mass index by nearly half, from 47 …

Weight-loss operations quadruple
14/03/2009 – 16:15 | One Comment
Weight-loss operations quadruple

LAST-DITCH operations to save morbidly obese Scots from eating themselves to death have quadrupled in just four years, it has been revealed.
State-funded operations for weight-loss surgery such as gastric bands and stomach reductions are increasing …

Gastric surgery is only cure for obesity
14/03/2009 – 15:52 | No Comment
Gastric surgery is only cure for obesity

The use of gastric surgery to treat obesity and its medical complications should be greatly expanded, the BA Festival of Science in Liverpool heard on Monday.
Clinical researchers told the meeting, organised by the British Association …

Top surgeon to sue over ‘rationing’ of weight loss surgery
14/03/2009 – 15:38 | One Comment
Top surgeon to sue over ‘rationing’ of weight loss surgery

One of Britain’s top surgeons is considering taking legal action over the “rationing” of life saving obesity surgery on the NHS. 
Professor John Baxter said that the health service was putting patients lives at risk by …

Vita Clinics UK Physician Advisor on BBC’s Horizon
12/03/2009 – 19:16 | No Comment
Vita Clinics UK Physician Advisor on BBC’s Horizon

Vita Clinics very own Carel Le Roux, Bariatric Physician Adviser and world leader in metabolism, features in Horizon’s Why are Thin People Not Fat? (BBC2, 9pm, 26 January). This is a controversial overeating experiment that …

Gastric Bypass Surgery
12/03/2009 – 13:25 | No Comment
Gastric Bypass Surgery

Dr. Jawad has been performing Bariatric Surgery in Central Florida since 1984, and Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery since 1999, having completed over 2000 Bariatric Surgical Cases safely, and with great success. Here you can watch Dr. …

Studies affirm weight-loss surgery beats diabetes
11/03/2009 – 20:17 | No Comment
Studies affirm weight-loss surgery beats diabetes

The most common form of diabetes disappears in nearly 80 percent of obese diabetics after weight-loss surgery, researchers said in a study that strongly affirmed the benefits of the operations.
Obesity raises the risk for type-2 …

Gas treatment freezes away prostate tumours
11/03/2009 – 16:53 | No Comment
Gas treatment freezes away prostate tumours

A treatment that freezes away prostate tumours is as effective as surgery but avoids life-changing side effects, researchers have found. Focal cryoablation, known as the “male lumpectomy”, destroys cancerous tissue with super-cold gas fired through …