A coroner has highlighted the "critical failure" in the care of a woman who died after a doctor failed to spot her gastric ...

A post mortem examination found that the gastric band - a weight loss device placed around the upper stomach - had slipped, ...

and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass involves the creation of a small upper stomach pouch and its attachment to the jejunum, which results in bypass of the rest of ...

With a surge in average-size women having ops to slim down to a ‘perfect 10’, we speak to three who have gone under the knife ...

A Yorkshire hospital has been criticised after a patient died when medical staff failed to detect that her gastric band had slipped.

Weight-loss surgeries such as gastric band operations can cost anywhere between £4,000 and £15,000 per person. About 7,000 people have received such surgery each year in the last decade but ...

Bariatric surgery is a surgical procedure designed to help individuals with morbid obesity achieve weight loss Learn ...

Immacolata Fiorentino died after undergoing a cosmetic surgery procedure - gastric banding - with her family filing a ...

Immacolata Fiorentino died after undergoing a cosmetic surgery operation - the gastric band - the family's complaint for a ...