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Woman sheds nearly half her body weight as she has gastric bypass

Woman sheds nearly half her body weight as she has gastric bypass. A Brazilian woman who had gastric bypass surgery after tipping the scales at 308lbs (22st) has shed nearly half her body weight – and revealed her new model-esque physique. Man kills wife and daughter in Easter… Read More.
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Judge reduces bond for Wonder Lake woman charged in drug overdose death

A McHenry County judge reduced bond Tuesday for a woman facing drug-induced homicide charges who said she needs advanced medical attention to recover from gastric bypass surgery. Sara Peters, 32, remained at the McHenry County Jail on Tuesday evening in lieu of a cash bond. Her family now …
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Size 32 fashion designer's incredible transformation after dropping 13st and 12 dress sizes …

Thayna Pacheco Barboza decided to have gastric bypass surgery after losing her grandmother to heart disease and seeing her mum suffer a heart attack. … Knowing her size put her at risk of early death, Thayna decided to have gastric bypass surgery, a procedure where surgical staples are used to …
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Hialeah Hospital earns bariatric surgery recognition from Florida Blue

To receive the coveted designation, a health care facility must demonstrate success in meeting patient safety measures as well as bariatric-specific quality measures, including complication and readmission rate for laparoscopic procedures in sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass, and adjustable gastric …
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Abby Lee Miller Drops 100 Lbs & Reveals New Glamorous Look On Easter â?? See Makeover Pic

… her incredible 100 lb. weight loss on display. Wearing a pair of black pants and sequined shirt, Abby Lee looked slimmed down and healthy for the outing. She completed the look with a full face of makeup and her hair in loose curls. Before entering prison last year, Abby had the gastric sleeve surgery, …
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Peptic Ulcer/Stricture After Gastric Bypass

Background: Mason's original animal experiments on the gastric bypass (GBP) showed little acid pro- duction in the gastric pouch, a finding confirmed in humans. Despite this, GBP in humans is associated with an incidence of ulcer/stricture (U/S) at the gas- trojejunostomy of 3 to 20%, with both acid …
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Morning Break: Super Gonorrhea; Pro-Bariatric Surgery; 'Rotting Pelvis'

Note that some links may require subscriptions. Also, tomorrow, March 30, is an official MedPage Today holiday. Morning Break will not appear, but will return on Monday. British man is diagnosed with the first global case of multidrug-resistant gonorrhea, acquired in Southeast Asia. (The Guardian).
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Save one heart and break another with weight loss surgery

Weight loss surgery is good for the heart in more ways than one: obese people are up to twice as likely to find love after such operations, the largest study of its kind has found. There is a flipside, however. Patients who are already married are a third more likely to divorce after the surgery. Bariatric …
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Abby Lee Miller PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Dance Moms star leaves jail after losing 100lbs behind bars

And one day later, a slimmer Abby Lee Miller was spotted at her halfway house in Los Angeles, where she will continue the rest of her sentence. The Dance Moms star, who shed 100 pounds during her time at a Federal Correction Complex, flashed her legs in baggy shorts with an oversized T-shirt.
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Big Weight Loss May Bring Big Relationship Changes

The investigators compared the patients with about 1,900 obese adults who did not have surgery. The other study looked at about three years' worth of post-surgical data on about 29,000 patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery. Those patients were compared with over 280,000 individuals in the …
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