Welcome to our weekly round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...

The Obesity Association, a division of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), has published ‘Weight Stigma and Bias: Standards of Care...

In the field of bariatric surgery, informed patients are empowered patients. For Bariatric Solutions International, a global leader in...

Gastric calibration tubes serve a number of critical roles during bariatric surgery, helping to size a gastric pouch or the sleeve during...

Small bowel obstruction due to internal hernia is one of the most common and potentially serious complications following laparoscopic...

In March 2024, an international group of bariatric and metabolic experts wrote a letter, published in Obesity Surgery(1), calling for a...

In 1997, Dr Bruno Dillemans from the Center of Obesity Surgery in the AZ Sint-Jan Hospital in Bruges, Belgium, was one of the first...

In this interview, Arno van der Veek, Managing Director of Bariatric Solutions International, looks back on his career, the importance of...

Professor Jodok Fink, Chief Physician of General and Visceral Surgery at Emmendingen District Hospital, Emmendingen, Germany and...

Despite a decline in popularity and doubts over its long-term effectiveness, there is still a place for laparoscopic gastric banding...

The number of patients undergoing revision or conversion bariatric procedures has been reported to be as high as 28%(1), however numbers...

Waist circumference (WC) is a stronger risk marker than BMI for developing obesity-related cancers in men, but not women, according to a...