Laparoscopic gastric banding is one of the least invasive weight loss surgeries available. Placing a band around your stomach can make you feel full with less food. Laparoscopic gastric banding ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in late February approved new guidelines that make millions of additional Americans eligible for Lap-Band surgery, providing a potential windfall for surgeons ...

Q: Should surgery centers consider adding laparoscopic gastric band surgery? Scott Leggett: Lap-band surgery is definitely something that surgery centers should consider. It is quite viable on an ...

Candidates for weight-loss surgery accept a level of risk and uncertainty about the outcome with any procedure. Many do so because having a body mass index of 35 or more with obesity-related health ...

If approved by the FDA, Allergan could market its product to teens–and insurers might be more likely to give the go-ahead for the surgery, which can cost up to $20,000. Obesity is, in case you haven’t ...

I know everybody is very excited about Gov. Chris Christie’s new effort to lose weight. Christie has reportedly lost 40 pounds so far, but it is important to remember that maintaining that weight loss ...

1) The "Lap" in Lap-Band stands for "laparoscopically." That means doctors use long, thin cameras (called laparoscopes), to insert the band through small incisions in the abdomen. 2) The Lap-Band ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A company that promoted Lap-Band weight-loss surgery has agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a false-advertising lawsuit, with some of the money going to billboards warning the ...

Carnie Wilson suffered a "very scary" setback after undergoing lap-band removal surgery. The "Hold On" singer elected to have her adjustable gastric band removed last week but faced complications ...

Bariatric surgeons such as Khalili, who has performed the Lap-Band procedure hundreds of times, worry that provocative campaigns like 1-800-GET-THIN promote surgery as a shortcut to weight loss. "The ...