July 2018

At a cost of $327 billion, diabetes has become the most expensive chronic disease in the U.S., according to the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) recently released “Economic Costs of Diabetes…

Bariatric surgery reduces the risk of developing malignant melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer by more than 60 percent, according to research presented at the European Congress on Obesity…

One of the hallmarks of our profession is the multidisciplinary approach that we apply to all stages of patient care. Ouroutcomes have reached unprecedented levels of safety and efficacy, not…

Let me start off this IH President’s Corner by congratulating and thanking Kelli Friedman, PhD and Connie Klein, ARNP for planning an outstanding agenda for ASMBS Weekend. Many kudos to…

Factors Associated With Long Wait Times for Bariatric Surgery (Annals of Surgery) Researchers analyzed a statewide clinical data registry of 60,791 patients who had bariatric surgery from 2006 to 2016…

ASMBS’ Updated Position Statement on Bariatric Surgery in Class I Obesity Gets Support from the ADA and SAGES-Endorsement The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Updated Position Statement…

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