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Metabolic and bariatric surgery dramatically improves outcomes for patients with obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD), significantly reducing the risk of kidney failure, major cardiovascular events (MACE) and death, according to research, ‘Long-term renal and survival outcomes in patients with obesity and chronic kidney disease following metabolic and bariatric surgery: A Trinetx cohort study (Abstract ID: 4520)’ presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for

Johnson & Johnson has announced results from the first clinical study of the investigational OTTAVA Robotic Surgical System – a prospective, multi-centre clinical study evaluating the safety and performance of the system in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) procedures. The results were presented at the 2026 American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Annual Meeting. “The data show encouraging evidence regarding the safety and performance of the OTTAVA™ Robotic

Bariatric News spoke with Professor Paulina Salminen, a professor of surgery and gastrointestinal surgery at University of Turku and Turku University Hospital in Finland, and President of the European Chapter of the International Federation For Surgery and Other Therapies for Obesity (IFSO-EC/IFSO), about her career path, her commitment to evidence-based research, and the challenges facing metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS)... Why did you decide to enter medicine? Initial

For nearly two decades, Professor Michel Gagner (Professor of Surgery in Montreal, Canada) has been working on new technologies to eliminate the limitations and complications associated with staplers and sutures. His innovative solution is magnetic compression anastomosis. In this interview he discusses the evolution of the technology, the positive outcomes, the latest data to be presented in Malaga and why he believes it could revolutionise the future if gastro-intestinal (G

The British Obesity & Metabolic Specialist Society (BOMSS) recently revealed that endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) procedural data will be incorporated into the Society’s National Bariatric Surgery Registry (NBSR). In this interview, Mr Omar Khan, Chair of the NBSR Committee, and Mr Jamie Kelly, who has performed over 500 ESG procedures, discuss the importance of the registry, why ESG plays a crucial role in the armamentarium of a bariatric specialist and the future possi

More than one billion people worldwide are living with obesity. Lifestyle intervention programmes, GLP-1 medications and bariatric surgery can be transformative, but they do not exist in a nutritional vacuum. Deficiencies are common among people affected by obesity before treatment begins, and surgery or medication can make them harder to ignore. Patients arrive underprepared, find little nutritional support built into their care, and are largely left to manage the consequenc