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Local Health (Press of Atlantic City)
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Getting Healthy after Cancer (KSPR Springfield)
Imagine watching your mother die of cancer. And then finding out you have a different form of the disease. It happened to the woman you're about to meet. She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer twice. But she used the strength she gained from her mother's experience to make positive changes in her life, including losing more than 100 pounds.

Gastric Bypass Surgery and Diabetes (KAMC Lubbock)
Gastric bypass surgery may be an option for more than just weight loss. It may also help with type-2 diabetes. One hospital hopes to prove that a similar surgery could help non-obese diabetics.

Laparoscopic gastric bypass provides better results (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Performing gastric bypass surgery to reduce the weight of morbidly obese patients using a laparoscopic method, rather than the conventional more invasive "open" abdominal method, reduces postoperative complications, the need for a second operation, and shortens hospital stays, new research shows. Nevertheless, laparoscopic gastric bypass is more expensive.

Diamond woman cast in weight-loss commercial (Morris Daily Herald)
JOLIET - A recent surgical patient at Silver Cross Hospital was cast in a new commercial promoting the Realiz Adjustable Gastric Band, made by Ethicon.

News in brief (The Copenhagen Post)
Fat chance | Obese people seeking liposuction operations at the nation's public hospitals are sent to the back of the queue, according to the Gastric Bypass Association.

Bumstead: Is shrimp crimping my fat-burning groove? (Eaton Rapids Community News)
The following is the fourth in an ongoing series of columns about Carla Bumstead's experience with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. She had the surgery April 15, 2008.

Man gets 18 years for wreck (The News-Star)
The West Monroe man who pleaded guilty in March to causing a major drunken-driving multiple-vehicle wreck on Monroe's Forsythe Avenue at Marie Place was sentenced Monday to 18 years at hard labor.

Randy Jackson Releasing A Diet Manual (Hollyscoop)
Randy Jackson from American Idol is releasing a book on dieting. We're not sure he's quite qualified for that type of publication. He got gastric bypass in 2003 to lose weight, and while he looked slim for a ...

Growing industry looks healthy Health care thriving (Erie Times-News)
Marc Bryant wore steel-toed boots, and his job was to make sure papermaking machines ran well at International Paper Co.'s Erie mill. Now he wears cross-trainers and cares for cardiac and gastric-bypass surgery patients as a floor nurse at Hamot Medical Center.

 

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