Gastric Bypass | Lap Band | Sleeve Gastrectomy | Gastric Plication

Today, at Obesity 2011, a debate was held on the decision of the FDA to approve the Lap-Band® for individuals with a BMI as low as 30 with a co-morbidity. Dr. John Dixon and Dr. Edward Livingston took the two sides in this debate. The first speaker was Dr. John Dixon, who argued that the […]

Today at Obesity 2011, the Obesity Society’s 29th annual meeting, a symposium was presented on Drugs and Obesity, Where Do We Go From Here? The symposium included 3 talks. The first talk, given by Dr. George Bray, focused on a history of obesity drug development. Starting with the seventeenth century, Bray went through a brief […]

This week, the Obesity Society’s 29th Annual Meeting (Obesity 2011) is taking place in Orlando, Florida. Today the pre-conference events began, including a group of talks titled Food Industry Outreach — Strategies the Food Industry Is Using to Address Obesity. The first talk was given by Mark Andon, PhD, Vice President of Nutrition at ConAgra […]

International leaders in bariatric surgery, including several Doctors of Weight Loss inaugural experts, gathered this weekend at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery’s (ASMBS) 2nd annual Fall Educational Event.  Drs. Gregg Jossart, Emma Patterson, Jaime Ponce, and David Provost directed, moderated, and presented at courses covering topics such as managing bariatric complications, coding […]

This week, experts in bariatric surgery from all over the world met at the XVI World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO).  Several Doctors of Weight Loss Experts were asked to participate and speak at the meeting. With one of the highest attendances in the IFSO’s history, […]

A recent study conducted by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that weight loss surgery is a cost-effective treatment for people who are mildly obese to severely obese. The study found that because people who undergo bariatric surgery are more likely to keep weight off in the long term, as well […]

The BMI (Body Mass Index) – the measurement most commonly associated with obesity – has been used since the mid-1800’s, but has long been regarded to have major flaws. These flaws include: a disregard for body composition, resulting in highly muscular people often having BMI’s that wrongly indicate obesity; additional inaccuracies when measuring children, elderly, […]

Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee spoke at a reception at ASMBS 2011. The event was hosted by Allergan, and featured Dr. Marina Kurian and Dr. Sunil Bhoyrul who opened, and Dr. Adam Smith who introduced Huckabee. He began by speaking about the state of healtcare in the country. “We are not a […]

Dr. Emma Patterson of Portland, OR, performs a Micro LAP-BAND Procedure. Video of this procedure has just been released for public viewing, after being presented at ASMBS 2011.

ASMBS has just come to a close after a week of education, discussion, and presentations. There were several excellent concurrent sessions on Thursday afternoon, including sessions on the sleeve gastrectomy and gastric plication.  The symposium on the rationale for surgical treatment of patients with class I obesity (BMI 30-35 kg/m2) was very well attended, and […]