POST weight-loss procedures such as the tightening and removing of excess skin are becoming increasingly popular, according to two Ipswich plastic surgeons.
Providing surgical treatment for people who are morbidly obese could save British taxpayer-funded health services and the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year leading surgeons said on Wednesday.
Like Lance Armstrong and the last-place Orioles, weight-loss pills have taken a beating in 2010. German researchers tested nine diet supplements and declared them all duds. An advisory committee suggested that the Food and Drug Administration reject a new diet drug called Qnexa. And the FDA forced two popular pounds-off pills (prescription Xenical and its over-the-counter sibling, Alli) to carry ...