Hello, I’m Doctor Fatemeh and I’m a physiotherapist and spinal-tap specialist based on Harley Street.
Most sufferers try and get by with spinal problems for years – making their situation worse; this is especially prominent among …

A DEDICATED surgeon who has devoted his career to setting the highest standards of health care for his Moray patients has bowed out of the operating theatre.
After 25 years as senior consultant surgeon at Dr …

Living large is what Keith Kunzig is all about. Keith and Debbie Kunzig, also known as ‘Big Nasty’ and ‘Mrs. Nasty,’ have shed a combined 277 pounds in the past three years.
As a kid playing …

Children born to moms who had the procedure before pregnancy have healthier hearts and less risk of obesity than their siblings born before the mom had surgery.
An overweight woman who has weight-loss surgery before becoming …

Childhood obesity has clearly become a serious personal and public health problem for the world population.
The same is true in the UK, where childhood obesity has risen to almost epidemic proportions. It is estimated that …

Weight-loss surgery could help women – but not men – reduce their risk of cancer, research suggests.
Obesity is known to increase the risk of many types of cancer, but it was unclear whether surgery to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

JoAnne Zoller Wagner’s diagnosis as prediabetic wasn’t enough to compel her to change her habits and lose 30 pounds. Not even with the knowledge her sister had died because of diabetes.
“I didn’t have that sense …