Lately, the success of the LAP-BAND® System has been getting lots of media attention. Read some of the recent articles below by clicking on the article title.
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by Wall Street Journal | March 31, 2008
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by New York Times | January 23, 2008
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by Medical News Today | February 27, 2007
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Researchers from Legacy Good Samaritan Obesity Institute announced today the results from a 5-year study of the safety of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) compared to laparoscopic Roux-en Y gastric bypass (LRYGB), two bariatric surgical procedures performed in the United States for the treatment of morbid obesity.
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by OR-Live.com | May 10, 2006
On May 10, 2006, surgeons at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut broadcasted a live LAP-BAND® System procedure to treat patients with morbid obesity. Click here to learn more and view a replay of the live webcast.
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by Nanci Hellmich / USA Today | May 2, 2006
Adjustable gastric banding is much more effective long-term than a very low-calorie diet for people who are about 50 pounds overweight, a study shows. Medical guidelines support this surgical procedure -- which puts a band around the top of stomach to create a feeling of fullness -- in patients who are extremely obese, about 100 or more pounds over a healthy weight, or those who are almost as overweight and have serious medical conditions, such as type 2 diabetes.
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by Valerie Reitman / Los Angeles Times | Jan 4, 2006
It started with a terrible dream: Cyrus Tehrani had died. At the funeral, his wife and six children wept over his outsized coffin. That nightmare jolted Joe Guarderas awake. He knew that if his best friend Cyrus, 34, didn't take drastic action, the dream would become reality. Cyrus had grown gargantuan.
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by Ed Yeates / KSL.com, Salt Lake City, UT | June 15, 2005
Imagine safely cinching up your stomach like a duffle bag—loosening or tightening it at will—depending on how much weight you want to lose! That's what more than 400 people in Utah are doing right now with something called "lap-banding."
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by Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press | Jan 1, 2006
As more people abandon New Year's resolutions to lose weight and turn to obesity surgery, doctors are debating which type is safest and best. And researchers are uncovering some surprising trends. The most common method in the United States - gastric bypass, or stomach-stapling surgery - may be riskier than once thought.
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by Ashley Gardner / Texarkana Gazette | May 29, 2005
Melissa Gatlin radiates hard-earned self-confidence. She has lost 80 pounds since having LAP-BAND® weight reduction surgery in July 2004. ‘I feel great,’ she said of the recent weight loss. “I feel a whole lot better about myself and I can actually go into a store and buy regular size clothes. I don’t necessarily want to be really skinny, but I want to be healthy.”
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by Jennifer Barrett Ozols / Newsweek | January 6, 2005
It may seem hard to believe that Stuart Logan was once a normal-size kid. At six foot two and 585 pounds, he no longer hangs out at the local ‘50s-style diner with stools and servers in pin-striped uniforms, because he can't fit into the seats.
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by Julie Davidow / Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter | April 22, 2004
Nickey Roderick can measure her weight loss in large numbers and awed friends and relatives. She can tell you she’s lost 110 pounds in little over a year, that her family refers to her as “the incredible shrinking lady” and that her knees and back no longer ache when she walks.
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by Joseph E. Chebli, M.D. / WLS Lifestyles | Winter 2004
There are currently many options available to patients considering bariatric surgery. The operations can be classified into restrictive operations, malabsorptive operations and combination restrictive/malabsorptive operations. Restrictive operations are operations that involve creation of a small gastric pouch.
