The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery says its most-recent data shows surgeons performed nearly 300,000 ...

Medically reviewed by Suzanne Fisher, RD Bariatric surgery is a powerful weight-loss tool that requires substantial diet and ...

Amanda Halterman, best known for the TLC reality show 1000-Lb Sisters, has dropped more than 300 pounds after undergoing ...

The aim of the SPECCIAL (Surgical Procedures Eliminate Compensated Cirrhosis In Advancing Long-term) study was to examine the long-term outcomes of bariatric surgery on the risk of developing major ...

Having lost a great deal of weight appears to offer some protection against ill health even for those who have regained some of their weight loss.

Abby Luce was tired of always being behind the camera. For years, she’d be the one taking the photos of her groups of friends ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have found that persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—synthetic toxic ...

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) ...