| ORLive Presents: Minimally Invasive Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass -- the Gold Standard of Weight-Loss Surgery
Weight-loss surgery is the first surgery PinnacleHealth is scheduled to host on the Internet over the next year. On Wednesday, November 7 at 6 pm, Luciano DiMarco, DO, FACOS, medical director of bariatric surgery at PinnacleHealth, will perform the gold standard of weight-loss surgery, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, at the PinnacleHealth Community Campus, on www.OR-Live.com. Since 1998, Luciano DiMarco, DO, FACOS, and his partners, Doctors Scot A. Currie and Matthew Davidson, have performed this surgery laparoscopically, reducing chance of infection, shortening hospital stay and improving recovery time. .
REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Minimally Invasive Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass -- the Gold Standard of Weight-Loss Surgery
Weight-loss surgery is the first surgery PinnacleHealth is scheduled to host on the Internet over the next year. On Wednesday, November 7 at 6 pm, Luciano DiMarco, DO, FACOS, medical director of bariatric surgery at PinnacleHealth, will perform the gold standard of weight-loss surgery, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, at the PinnacleHealth Community Campus, on www.OR-Live.com. Since 1998, Luciano DiMarco, DO, FACOS, and his partners, Doctors Scot A. Currie and Matthew Davidson, have performed this surgery laparoscopically, reducing chance of infection, shortening hospital stay and improving recovery time. .
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Bariatric surgeon Wade N. Barker, M.D. and his experienced staff are committed to helping patients take control of their health and improve their lives through weight loss. For obese patients who have been unable to reach a healthy weight through diet and exercise, we offer two highly effective weight loss surgery options: LAPAROSCOPIC GASTRIC BYPASS surgery and LAP BAND® surgery.Both have helped innumerable men and women achievedramatic, long-term results[+more] Vision Correction Surgery Since 1987, noted cornea specialist William A. Boothe, M.D., has brought the world into focus with more than 82,000 LASIK laser vision correction procedures. Dr. Boothe also continues to be the busiest IntraLASIK surgeon in the world, having now performed over 44,000 IntraLASIK procedures.
Help For The Obese: Bariatric Partners Lands $12M In New Financing For Weight Loss Surgical Centers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Bariatric Partners, one of two Charlotte-based startups focused on surgery as a means of helping obese people lose weight, has closed on $12 million in new venture capital. The "B" round comes just over a year after Bariatric Partners launched in September of 2005 with $12.55 million financing. Bariatric is derived from the Greek words for "weight" and "treatment." Bariatric surgery involves sealing off most of the stomach to reduce the amount a food can eat or rearrange the small intestine to reduce the amount of calories a body can absorb. Bariatric Partners utilizes laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, or LAGB, surgery. A surgeon inserts an adjustable silicone band that is subsequently adjusted over time. This technique does not divide any portion of the stomach or intestine.
Somerset Hospital offers weight-loss surgery
Teresa Matsko, Boswell, tried almost every known diet without much success."I was tired of yo-yo diets," she said. "I had GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), tendon problems, degenerative discs and sleep apnea. I've been trying to get weight-loss surgery for two years, but insurance denied it at first."
The 53-year-old housewife weighed 232 pounds in July when she underwent gastric bypass surgery at Somerset Hospital. She now weighs 182 and her goal is 150."I no longer need an oxygen tank at night and I don't have heartburn anymore," she said. "I look so different, when I went in for my three-month checkup, Dr. Pradhan didn't recognize me."Dr. Kumuda Pradhan performed the surgery. She was his first gastric bypass patient at Somerset Hospital, but he performed more than 120 at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wis., where he completed his fellowship in bariatric and advanced laparoscopic surgery.
Government Restrictions on Weight Loss Surgeries Limit Access for Poor, Underinsured Patients
Thresholds limiting bariatric surgeries to high-volume centers disproportionately restrict access for poor and underinsured patients, populations which are among the most in need of them, an analysis led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. .
True love rebuffed?
THE mining sector will not always have China and India's ravenous industrial revolution appetites to put bread on its own table. So you can see the logic of BHP Billiton's bid approach to Rio Tinto, rebuffed for now on price. It would unite the world's biggest and third biggest miners to create a £120 billion-plus behemoth, with all the scope for cost-cutting and revenue synergies that would entail. No-one should doubt the ambition of the concept. It is clear BHP Billiton is looking five to ten years down the line, when the mining industry may well not have the exceptionally benign backcloth it has had in recent years. If the deal does come off, for which it looks like BHP will need some sort of sweetener - perhaps a cash element that is now lacking - it would be the world's second-biggest takeover deal after mobile phone giant Vodafone's acquisition of Mannesmann in 2000.
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