A coroner has highlighted the "critical failure" in the care of a woman who died after a doctor failed to spot her gastric ...

Weight-loss surgeries such as gastric band operations can cost anywhere between £4,000 and £15,000 per person. About 7,000 people have received such surgery each year in the last decade but ...

A post mortem examination found that the gastric band - a weight loss device placed around the upper stomach - had slipped, causing her stomach to twist. It led to the build up of fluid and then an ...

Those include the gastric band and gastric sleeve. Other types of surgeries called gastric bypass also make changes to your small intestine, so you absorb less fat and protein. The traditional ...

A Yorkshire hospital has been criticised after a patient died when medical staff failed to detect that her gastric band had slipped.

Lap band surgery appears to be an effective procedure to combat obesity in adolescents, according to a new study conducted at NYU Medical Center. It is the first study to evaluate the lap band in ...

These results are comparable to excess weight loss after popular bariatric procedures, like gastric sleeve surgery and gastric band surgery. Like other bariatric procedures, ESG is a tool for weight ...

and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass involves the creation of a small upper stomach pouch and its attachment to the jejunum, which results in bypass of the rest of ...