Weight loss surgery

In this Jan 9, 2020 image from video, Anita Saah, 45, holds the size 18-20 pants she used to wear, in her home in Rockville, Md. She had her first weight loss procedure, a sleeve gastrectomy, in July 2018. After experiencing symptoms such as severe dehydration, likely related to her previous acid reflux, she went back for a different weight loss surgery in September 2019. (AP Photo/Federica Narancio)

After obesity surgery, more patients returning for another

NEW YORK (AP) — As more Americans turn to surgery to lose weight, more of them are also returning for a second operation because the first isn’t working.

This combination of undated photos provided by the family in October 2019 shows Faith Newsome before and after gastric bypass surgery. At 5 feet, 8 inches and 273 pounds, her BMI was almost 42 and she had high blood pressure and prediabetes when she had the procedure at age 16. After about a year, she’d shed 100 pounds and those health problems disappeared. She slimmed down enough to become active in sports, shop for prom dresses and gain a better self-image. But to avoid malnutrition she takes vitamins, must eat small meals and gets sick if she eats foods high in fat or sugar. (Family photos via AP)

More severely obese kids should get surgery, MD group says

This undated image released by Howell Designs Studio, LLC shows fashion and lifestyle blogger Maui Bigelow. Bigelow, a former teacher in Albany, Georgia, created Phatgirlfresh.com, with 67,500 monthly unique visitors to her site and nearly 40,000 followers on Instagram. (Kaylin Jame/Howell Designs Studio, LLC via AP)

Weight loss among fat-acceptance influencers a fraught topic

FILE - This April 3, 2018 file photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York. New research, published Tuesday, Oct. 16 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest...

Obesity surgery may lower heart attack danger in diabetics

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, photo, Mary-Jane Harrison spends time with her granddaughter, Robyn, in San Antonio. Like nearly 78 million American adults, Harrison is obese, and because of stress fractures in her legs she is unable to able to walk up or down the stairs of her two-story home. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Few eligible patients can get weight loss surgery

Louisiana state worker insurance to cover obesity surgery

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s health insurer for state workers, teachers and retirees will soon cover weight loss surgery for people who are obese, under a bill signed into law by Gov.

Free Seminar about Weight Loss Surgery July 25 at Regional West

SCOTTSBLUFF ― Did you know that in addition to helping you lose weight, bariatric surgery can improve or resolve type 2 diabetes in 85 percent of patients?

Free Seminar about weight loss surgery Wednesday evening at Regional West

SCOTTSBLUFF ― The public is invited to a free seminar about weight loss surgery at 6 p.m., Wednesday, May 23 in the Scotts Bluff I meeting room at Regional West Medical Center.