3rd Nov, 2016
weight-loss prescription medications since 2012. Each of these approved it's modest but real success in large, long trials in which each patient took the medication for two straight years. While cost remains an obstacle, more insurance and are slowly adding coverage for these valuable medications. In 2015 the FDA approved two new devices which have proven success for this same group of people needing to… Read more »
3rd Nov, 2016
obesity rates in the last couple of years. The trend among Americans to reduce soda consumption has its roots to a large degree in the desire to improve and maintain health, and reduce obesity. But some of the reduction may simply be shifting tastes, because statistics show that diet soda consumption has also fallen from its peaks. Meanwhile, sales of bottled water have increased and… Read more »
3rd Nov, 2016
weight-loss surgery to be the most effective treatment of type two diabetes when compared to medical management, over the course of five full years evaluation and follow-up. In the study by Hsu, (JAMA Surg 2015 Sept 16:1-8) the authors report experience with matched cohorts of patients with type two diabetes mellitus in the mild to moderate obesity range. In one group, 52 patients had weight-loss… Read more »
3rd Nov, 2016
Dr. Sasse has written a 2020 update to gastric bypass pouch tightening without surgery. Did you know that a stretched stomach pouch from gastric bypass can now be revised and shrunk without surgical cutting? Millions of individuals have undergone gastric bypass surgery, most of them with great results. But some have experienced weight re-gain and many who had a stomach surgical procedure five, 10, or… Read more »