The Gastric Sleeve (sleeve gastrectomy) operation is a surgical procedure that combines the reliable weight loss and low maintenance of the gastric bypass with the simplicity of gastric banding.
The sleeve gastrectomy reduces the size of …

A MUM-OF-FIVE who has lost 12 stones in a year after having a gastric band operation has praised the surgeon who changed her life.
Louise Thomas, 41, spoke out following an inquest into the death of …

Assessment for weight loss surgery – such as gastric bypass or gastric banding – has to ask whether patients are committed to a healthier way of life, insists David Ashton.
Some 60 per cent of the …

The gastric bandits: How women risk weight-loss surgery abroad because they’re not fat enough to have it here.
Jilly Trela and I first met in a Bristol tea room. The Victoria sponge looked quite tempting and …

Fern Britton is to appear on the BBC’s Question Time.
The popular TV host – who has recently slimmed down after being at the centre of a row when it was disclosed she’d had a gastric …

Stomach surgery to tackle obesity jumped 40% in England last year in bad news about the state of the nation’s health and bulging waistline.
Operations to reduce stomach size such as stomach stapling and gastric by-passes …

Television presenter Fern Britton has caused controversy after it was revealed that her recent weight loss followed a gastric band operation, and was not simply down to dieting and exercise.
But how does a gastric band …

SUZANNE Gregory cuddles the £8,000 baby she thought she would never have – after weight-loss surgery cured her of infertility.
The 36-year-old, from Bradwell, near Sheffield, who tipped the scales at 19 stone, was told by …

The Duodenal Switch procedure generates weight loss by restricting the amount of food that can be eaten (due to the removal of part of the stomach – vertical gastrectomy) and by limiting the amount of …

An inability to reduce her weight of almost 16st without immediately putting the pounds back on led Anne Diamond to seek bariatric surgery “as a last resort”.
The former television presenter, now patron of the National …

TV presenters Fern Britton and Anne Diamond have both admitted having surgery to help them lose weight and the NHS is now carrying out more of the operations than ever before.
A variety of methods, known …

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 …