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The wider implications of GSK's weight loss petition (Nutraingredients.com)
Filed last month with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the petition claims that although obesity is not a 'disease' in itself, it can lead to a host of conditions including diabetes and heart disease, and weight loss products should therefore carry disease claims rather than health claims.
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Weight Loss Surgery Helps Obese Women Have Healthier Babies (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
A new report suggests that women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies than do obese women who become pregnant.
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Weight loss surgery helps obese women have healthier babies (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 5:19 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 4:45 p.m. Women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies and healthier babies than do obese women who become pregnant, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Scale Down Weight Loss To Hold Free Seminar (WSPA Spartanburg)
Scale Down Weight Loss Programs will offer a free community seminar on December 4 at The Horizon Center in downtown Spartanburg.
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Weight-loss surgery helps with pregnancy: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Women who get pregnant after weight-loss surgery tend to be healthier and less likely to deliver a baby born with complications compared to obese women, researchers said on Tuesday.
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CMS Will Not Cover Weight-Loss Surgeries For Non-Obese Diabetes Patients (Medical News Today)
CMS on Monday said that it will not cover weight-loss surgery for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes who are not dangerously overweight because there is not ample evidence proving the procedure can improve their health, Reuters/Yahoo! News reports. Currently, Medicare and private insurers cover weight-loss surgeries, which range in cost from $15,000 to $35,000, for severely obese people.
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Some Pregnancy-Related Complications Minimized For Women Who Have Had Weight-Loss Surgery (Medical News Today)
Women who undergo weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, and later become pregnant after losing weight may be at lower risk for pregnancy-related diabetes and high blood pressure-- complications that can seriously affect the mother or her baby--than pregnant women who are obese, according t
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Hospital holds free weight-loss seminar (Statesville Record & Landmark)
Lake Norman Regional Medical Center will hold a free educational seminar on surgical weight loss on Monday, Nov. 24 at 7 p.m.
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Health buzz | Get information on weight loss (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
SEMINARS Get information on weight loss Conway Medical Center is offering a series of weight loss surgery seminars.
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Weight loss surgery before pregnancy may benefit both mother and child (New Kerala)
Washington, Nov 19 : A new study ha revealed that obese women who have weight loss surgery before becoming pregnant have a lower risk of pregnancy-related health problems and their children are less likely to be born with complications.
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