The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a second Southern California firm it says is using misleading ads to promote Lap-Band weight-loss surgery. The FDA sent a letter to the owners of ...

Allergan Inc. is looking to get Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its Lap-Band weight-loss device to more patients and hopes to see expanded health insurance coverage, according to its ...

Since her rise to fame in the ’90s with the Grammy-nominated trio Wilson Phillips, Carnie Wilson has been open about her struggles with weight. Once over 300 pounds, she agreed to have her gastric ...

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 ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie revealed Tuesday he secretly had lap-band surgery to lose weight in February. Here are some general facts about the procedure: • An inflatable band is placed around the ...

Lap band surgery has significant benefits for severely obese teenagers and, despite its controversial nature, should still be considered as a first option to manage obesity during adolescence, a new ...

The Medical Board of California is reviewing the care that a surgeon provided to a Lawndale woman who died in late December shortly after she was implanted with the Lap-Band weight-loss device, ...

SAN CLEMENTE, CA / ACCESSWIRE / July 1, 2021 / ReShape Lifesciences Inc. (NASDAQ:RSLS), the premier physician-led weight-loss solutions company, today announced that Lap-Band ® utilization has ...

You don't need a crystal ball to see that Allergan (AGN) has run into trouble on its Lap-Band stomach shrinking device: Its obesity intervention revenues sank 12 percent to $54.4 million in Q2 2011, ...

An FDA advisory committee voted 8 to 2 that Allergan's Lap-Band device is safe enough to use in patients who are just moderately overweight with a BMI as low as 30. The stomach-shrinking device is ...

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A study looked at 21 severely obese teens who underwent lap band surgery Seven of the 21 had the lap band removed because it did not work The procedure is reversible, making it preferable to other ...