NEW YORK — Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study. All but one of the 11 extremely obese teens studied saw their diabetes disappear within a year after weight-loss surgery, the ...
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NEW YORK—Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study. All but one of the 11 extremely obese teens studied saw their diabetes disappear within a year after weight-loss surgery, the researchers ...
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It may be uncomfortable to think about after the holidays, but currently two-thirds of Americans are overweight and about five percent are actually clinically severely obese. New Year’s resolutions are great, but they probably won’t do much to ...
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The research involved 97 men with an average age of 48, all of whom were "morbidly obese." The conclusions are based on the patients' own reporting of sexual function before and again several months after gastric bypass surgery that allowed them to ...
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A smoking ban in one U.S. city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years. The study, the longest-running of its kind, showed the rate of hospitalized cases dropped 41 percent in the three years after the ban of ...
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OBESE patients in Belfast will be flown hundreds of miles for fat-loss operations at Imperial College trust, the Evening Standard can reveal. The trust confirmed today that it had won its bid to provide the stomach-shrinking surgery. It is part of a ...
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Lucas County Commissioners voted Tuesday to appoint radio host Andrew Zepeda as its first "weight loss czar." Known as Andrew "Z" on his morning show on 92.5 WVKS, Mr. Zepeda is to encourage county residents to lose 1 million pounds in 2009. The 5 ...
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