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4: Stevens Johnson Syndrome Stories That Tear the Heart
Her name is Rosemary and there she is on YouTube, appealing to anyone who will listen to pray for the nephew of her friend Norma. The young man, who is 25, was stricken with Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS), a rare condition usually triggered by an allergic reaction to medication. In this case, it appears to be SJS ibuprofen.

5: 'AP ranks fifth in the country in obese population'
The incidence of obesity is growing in India due to lifestyle changes and more cases are found in women than men, according to Y. Krishna Mohan, surgical gastroenterologist and bariatric surgeon. Dr. Mohan was here from Hyderabad to hold a continued medical education programme for about 150 doctors here on Sunday.

6: Laparoscopic Adjustable Banded Roux-en-Y gastric bypass as a primary procedure ...
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is associated with failure to achieve or maintain 50% excess weight loss (EWL) or BMI Also, percent EWL is significantly less after 1-year in the super-super-obese group as compared with the less obese group and many patients are still technically considered to be obese (lowest post-surgical BMI RYGB surgery in this group.

7: Fern Britton Gets A Gastric Band
Wow! Fern Britton's gastric bypass/gastric band surgery is big news. Since writing yesterday's post, it seems that Ms Britton is the second This Morning presenter to go under the knife to help reduce the pounds. Apparently, Alison Hammond - she of Big Brother fame - also took the surgery option to shrink.

8: American Obesity Continually On The Up Climb
Obesity or overweight striking Americans to the staggering percentages of 63.1% of all American adults according to figures by Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index 2009. What causes this to happen? Simply put less exercise and unhealthy diets. If that does not send shock waves going here are some figures that just may among those who are obese and overweight.

9: Vaccination as a Tool for Cancer Prevention
Infectious agents, such as viruses and bacteria, are the causes of several common cancers. Infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori predisposes to gastric cancer. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are associated with liver cancer, and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with lymphoma and nasopharyngeal cancer.

10: Gastroparesis slows stomach's ability to digest food
For the past two years, Franklin Twp. resident Peggy Knepper has struggled with extreme fatigue, heartburn and nausea so severe that she lost her appetite - and 30 pounds. "I've felt like my quality of life was at an all-time low because I never knew how I would feel when I'd wake in the morning," said Knepper, 68, who lived on crackers, pudding and noodle soup.

11: National Recognized Weight Loss Surgery Program at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
For those of you who are suffering from obesity problems and looking for the best way to get rid of this ever increasing gain in weight, you can try the Hallmark Health's Lawrence Memorial Hospital situated at Medford. It is a nationally recognized weight loss surgery program started by Sheldon Randall, Andras, Sandor and Khaled Yehia who Master in Doctorate.

12: Should children get gastric bands?
Nick Finer is probably confronted with more human flesh in a day than most of us see in a year. As a result, the consultant endocrinologist at University College London Hospital, and an obesity specialist, is depressingly familiar with the litany of life-threatening diseases that afflict grossly obese adults: heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, as well as related horrors such as liver failure and blindness.

13: Bastrop County woman halves her weight
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Jennifer Aldridge went from a weight of 605 pounds to just over 300 in only one year. "To me, Ms. Aldridge is an inspiration to us all," said Dr. Stanley Wang, a cardiologist with Austin Heart Hospital . "She's really an example of what can happen if you're really committed to weight loss." All this started for Aldridge as a teenager, when she had knee surgery, two years in a row.

14: ABMH Plans Strengthening of Facilities
Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital (ABMH), located in Pimpri-Chinchwad on the outskirts of Pune, is expanding its facilities. To begin with, it is scaling up its commissioned bed strength from 250 to 300 beds, out of 500 installed bed capacity. These beds would be added in segments like ICU, CCU, HDU, NICU, PICU as well as the wards.

15: EE Times Virtual Conference: Medical Systems Design
First came the computing revolution. Then the communications revolution. Today we are on the leading edge of a revolution in medical systems and services that holds the potential to be even more transformative than the technological revolution that came before. That's the message from Doug Rasor, the keynote presenter at this year's Medical System Design Virtual Conference and a 30-year veteran of the semiconductor and medical technology markets.

16: Surgery Better Than Exercise for Obese Teens?
For two years, researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, tracked the weight loss of two groups of 25 severely obese teens, who ranged in age from 14 to 18. One group focused their weight loss efforts by participating in a diet, The surgery can help severely overweight and obese patients lose weight by restricting their food intake.

17: Obese teens offered surgery option
Canadian teens who are severely obese because of medical conditions will be offered weight-loss surgery as part of a new program. Some children aged 12 to 17 who are obese because of brain tumours or other conditions such as complications from Type 2 diabetes will be offered a minimally invasive type of weight-loss surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

18: Gastric banding is a costly get-out for the obese
A decade ago the idea of fitting a gastric band around someone's stomach to stop them eating was the stuff of surgical extremes. A handful of cases a year demanded such severe action. But as Britain's obesity rates have soared, so an ever greater number of people have been pushed off the scales and into surgery.

19: TRICARE offers options for beneficiaries struggling with weight
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - TRICARE beneficiaries whose weight poses a serious health risk have surgical alternatives available to them. For those who medically qualify, TRICARE covers gastric bypass, gastric stapling and gastroplasty procedures including vertical banded gastroplasty and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, commonly known as Lap-Band surgery.

20: Attractive cost Laparoscopic gastric bypass Surgery in India: Get it
International patients an affordable Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery in finest hospitals with best medical care and excellent recuperation package. Indian hospitals of Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore provides experienced surgeons having experience in professional service and quality personal care.

21: Just Google Body Mass Index and you will find many charts. ...
It was my physician - a.k.a. 'the miracle medical man' - who first suggested Gastric Bypass operation as a method of controlling my weight - among other health factors. "Have you ever considered this?" he asked one day out of the blue. Well, no, I hadn't. Isn't this surgery only for hugely obese people?

22: Single-Incision Technique Available for Weight Loss Surgery
Individuals who are considering bariatric surgery for weight loss now have a new option: single-incision laparoscopic surgery. This surgical technique is relatively new and requires surgeons to learn specialized skills. Traditional laparoscopic (minimally invasive) surgery typically requires four to six small openings (less than one-half to one inch long each) made in the abdomen.

23: Most of these fit with Dercums, especially the weather-induced ...
--Claire MINI GOAL -- BY JUNE 27-- SUMMER CHALLENGE! Eat clean-- lean proteins, lots of veggies, high fiber carbs, drink water, no artificial sweetners, limit 1 coffee per day Move everyday-- options - walking, biking, dvds - Jillian Michael's, pilates, or yoga Get plenty of sleep - everything else will be easier when I do this!

24: Gastric Bypass :One Way To Control Weight Problems
That's the general idea. The surgery is supposed to make eating too much uncomfortable if not impossible. That's why it is considered a last resort for the morbidly obese who have tried everything else and failed. I had Gastric Bypass in oct 2007. i've yet to feel hungry. I sometimes have to set an alarm to remind me to eat because if I get busy, I forget.

25: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) or Heart Burn and Its Treatment
By acid reflux disease (GERD) content from the stomach comes up into the aesophagus or even into the mouth and throut causing burning sensations and sour taste as primary symptoms. Read here about causes, mechanisms and treatment options of GERD.

26: How to Cure Constipation and Hemorrhoids
Constipation is often due to lifestyle factors, and chronic constipation can cause hemorrhoids. Some simple measures to cure constipation and hemorrhoids are presented. The working mechanisms of each measure are explained.

27: Device for acid-reflux management wraps itself around disease
Donahoe had GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease, but it wasn't diagnosed until he was a sophomore quarterbacking his high school football team. That's when a physician, the father of a teammate, spotted him drinking freely from a bottle of the over-the-counter antacid Mylanta at a game and asked why.

28: Vets Help Keep 'wardogs' Ready
Staff Sgt. Carlos M. Burger II 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division FORT CARSON - Warhorse Soldiers quickly disembarked from the landing CH-47 Chinooks and moved into a simulated town in Iraq. Their mission: to work with Iraqi nationals in an attempt to seize a high value target.

29: Bariatric Surgery Significantly Increases Fracture Risk
Bariatric surgery has given hundreds of thousands of severely overweight people, who had little or no success achieving a healthy weight through traditional methods, a new lease on life. By restricting food intake and, in some operations, interrupting the digestive process to prevent the absorption of some calories and nutrients, the procedure not only promotes weight loss but also improves or resolves conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, obstructive sleep apnea, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

30: Obesity surgery thins bones, but enough to break?
By LAURAN NEERGAARD - 1 day ago WASHINGTON (AP) It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too. Doctors don't yet know how likely patients' bones are to thin enough to break in the years after surgery. But one of the first attempts to tell suggests they might have twice the average person's risk, and be even more likely to break a hand or foot.


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