Roller Weight Loss & Advanced Surgery, a Fayetteville-based bariatric surgery clinic, recently invested about $8 million to ...

David Rometo, MD, weighs various weight loss treatments, their success, and sustainability. Bariatric surgery is more cost-effective and better at helping patients lose and maintain weight than ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. If you’re struggling with weight, you’re not alone. Around 42 percent of American adults have obesity. In addition to nutrition, ...

"We can see patients lose as much as 40% to 50% of their total body weight with bariatric surgery, and also put conditions ...

July 14, 2005 — The use and costs of bariatric surgery and pharmacotherapy are increasing, according to a report published in the July/August issue of Health Affairs. Coverage across insurers is ...

Elena Losina, PhD, codirector of the Orthopedics and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses the cost-effectiveness of varying weight loss interventions. The ...

Some of the patients underwent gastric bypasses, which redirect food away from parts of the stomach and small intestine so ...

After two years, people who undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery achieve weight loss that is about five times greater than ...

States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out from under the budgetary squeeze that took them by ...

A recent study shows this one-time procedure is a more cost-effective option than the increasingly popular GLP-1 medication ...