Experts discuss if the surgery is a viable option for families with childhood obesity. Obesity affects 14.7 million (19.7%) ...

Researchers have found "tremendous long-term outcomes" for teenagers who underwent surgery to treat their severe obesity a ...

Diabetes and obesity are lifestyle conditions that can lead to serious health problems. Obesity can increase the risk of ...

New research shows adolescents also are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes after gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy ...

Weight-loss surgery in adolescents with severe obesity can lead to long-term health benefits, such as more frequent remission ...

“When we compare bariatric surgery to bariatric endoscopy, endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty and transpyloric shuttle offer a ...

A decade after adolescent bariatric surgery, over 50% of participants sustained major weight loss and saw significant health ...

The national use of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy more than doubled as bariatric surgery frequency dropped by ...

Newer weight loss drugs are cost effective in the long term only when combined with bariatric weight loss surgery, according ...

Use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) prior to bariatric surgery was safe but wasn’t associated with ...

Obesity treatment shifts from surgery to drugs as bariatric procedures decline by 25.6% and GLP-1 receptor agonist use jumps ...

Lives lost to obesity-related heart disease have nearly tripled over the past 20 years, a new study reports. Heart disease deaths linked to obesity increased 2.8-fold between 1999 and 2020, according ...