WIN - Publication - Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity
Describes the procedure intended to promote weight loss by restricting food intake or interrupting digestive processes. From the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Gastric Bypass Surgery for Morbid Obesity
Outlines the different steps in the procedure and describes potential complications.

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Gastric bypass
Information about the gastric bypass procedure, also known as bariatric surgery or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, including risks and expectations after surgery.

Gastric Bypass Operations
WebMD looks at when gastric bypass operations may be appropriate to combat obesity and what ... Are There Risks Associated With Gastric Bypass Surgery? Yes. ...

Gastric bypass surgery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
User-edited article about the gastric bypass surgical procedures used to treat morbid obesity by dividing the stomach and rearranging the small intestine.

Use public money for gastric bypass surgery, obese man pleads (CBC)
A southern Newfoundland man says taxpayers should foot the bill for gastric bypass surgery he has already booked.

Gastric Bypass Surgery in Wilmington (WECT 6 Wilmington)
WECT's Kelli O'Hara took a closer look into the lives of two people who have been effected by the surgery, for better and worse.

Trent woman recovering from multi-organ transplant (The Daily American)
Ruth Baer, 37, had weighed 298 pounds. She had a gastric bypass operation, but the procedure was done wrong and she didn’t know it. She lives in Trent with her three children, Curtis Heining, 17, Evan Heining, 16, and Corrina Baer, 11, and her caregiver, Tammy Bailey.

Hospital Rejects Deal With Medicaid For Lifesaving Surgery (Central Florida News 13)
Days after News 13 learned Medicaid would pay for a lifesaving surgery for an Orlando woman, there's word Jackson Memorial Hospital has rejected the deal.

NewHope Bariatrics Offers Live Webcast of LAP-BAND(R) Weight-Loss Surgery (Centre Daily Times)
NewHope Bariatrics announced today a free Web cast of a LAP-BAND(R) System weight-loss surgery performed by Dr. Stephen Malley, Medical Director of NewHope Bariatrics of Kansas City, followed by a live chat with the surgeon on March 4 at 11 a.m. EST.

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