Michigan-based Forest Health Services LLC launched plans in 2003 to build a two-story inpatient bariatric hospital at Intech Park off 71st Street and then applied a year ago for a license to operate ...

The bariatric program at Stanford University saw hospital readmission rates drop by 75 percent and surgical-site infections decline by 60 percent after changes in patient education, discharge planning ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Bariatric (weight-loss) surgery is unlike most other types of surgery in ...

Dr Sharma explains how high concentrations of visceral fat interferes during surgical procedures. He suggests bariatric surgery as an effective way to curb it.

Bariatric surgery will no longer be performed at Wishard Health Services in an attempt to free up space for the low-income patients whom the hospital serves. Patients on Wishard Advantage, the ...

Obese adults who achieved weight loss from bariatric surgery were associated with a 32 percent lower risk of developing cancer, a June 3 study from Cleveland Clinic found. Researchers retrospectively ...

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that among patients who have obesity and who tested positive for COVID-19, a past history of bariatric surgery was significantly associated with a lower risk of hospital ...

New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients. By Jessica Silver-Greenberg Sarah Kliff and Aimee ...