THE first couple to have his-and-hers gastric bands fitted on the NHS have jointly lost 14 STONE.
Retired fireman Roy Glencross, 61, and wife Kate, 60, had their £24,000 keyhole ops last June.
Before that he would …

It is early Friday morning on the day surgery ward at Heartlands, Birmingham, the fourth biggest NHS hospital in the UK. Kim Beedie, 50, is one of five patients (the youngest is a 17-year-old girl) …

A Belfast nurse who spent years battling a weight problem and transformed her life by having surgery is using her experience to help patients in a weight management clinic.
Sharon Watterson, who was forced to quit …

A Glasgow surgeon has said that gastric surgery can play a bigger part in the fight against obesity.
Dr Dave Galloway, a consultant surgeon at Gartnavel Hospital, is to tell a conference on obesity that procedures …

Last week, I settled down for a lazy midweek evening in front of the TV and scanned the channels to consider my choices.
On BBC1, there was a documentary called Fix My Fat Head, a video …

The NHS war chest used to directly tackle obesity in Northamptonshire has had to more than quadruple in the space of three years to cope with an increase in overweight people, new NHS budget figures …

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) describes the repetitive pausing of breathing that occurs during sleep as a result of the breathing passageway or airway collapsing at the back of the throat and tongue. The …

Hubby Phil’s recipe to lose weight
She famously had a gastric band fitted round her stomach but Fern Britton’s husband has revealed his wife had another secret up her sleeve.
Tv chef Phil Vickery admitted last night …

Vita Clinics in Birmingham have added a new service to their portfolio of procedures and services, Skin Reduction Surgery.
People often talk about the benefits of weight loss surgery in terms of feeling healthier and fitter, …

Laparoscopic gastric bypass (LGB) surgery with resultant weight loss improves urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms and quality of life in morbidly obese women, according to a report in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases (2009; published …

ALISON Polzin’s goal of walking the Grand Canyon is now more achieveable after having lap-band surgery in February.
Mrs Polzin, from Kingsthorpe, was the first person to have the surgery at a Toowoomba hospital.
Until this …

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Five years ago, MTV told the story of an Augusta woman who weighed nearly 600 pounds. They followed her journey as she went through gastric bypass surgery.
“I really can’t believe these were …