For weight-loss surgery, "Centers of Excellence" may not be any safer than their undistinguished peers, a study of 25 Michigan hospitals suggests.
Bariatric surgery has become the second most common abdominal operation in the U.S.
Home Sweet Home: North Texas doctor comes to aid of jobless-uninsured woman Larissa Hersom could only sip from a glass of water after her April weight loss surgery in Tijuana, Mexico--jobless at the time--the decision to have the surgery in another country was based purely on money.