Total knee and hip arthroplasties can lead to healthier livingA Mount Sinai School of Medicine study has found that patients often exhibit a significant decrease in weight and body mass index (BMI) after undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty). The study is the first of its type to correct for the annual increase in BMI typically found in North Americans between the ages of 29 ...
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.