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

Lap band surgery appears to be an effective procedure to combat obesity in adolescents, according to a new study conducted at NYU Medical Center. It is the first study to evaluate the lap band in ...

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

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 ...

A trainer shares the benefits of resistance band training and his 30-day resistance band and cardio workout to lose belly fat.

Those include the gastric band and gastric sleeve. Other types of surgeries called gastric bypass also make changes to your small intestine, so you absorb less fat and protein. The traditional ...

So it actually has a hormonal effect, hence, good weight loss. The last one is the gastric band, where you actually put a band on the stomach. It’s a device. Admittedly, we don’t use near as ...