When author Frances Kuffel reached her goal weight -- after losing more than200 pounds -- she didn't even realize how far she'd come. "I kept thinking 'I'm still fat; I still look awful.' Someone else ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Teresa Gretencord's fat all but melted off. All her life, the 45-year-old nurse had been obese. Six feet tall, Gretencord weighed 350 pounds on the day, in October 2004, that she ...

DALLAS – Sept. 25, 2014 – Patients who lost more than 100 pounds and those who shed weight through bariatric surgery had the highest risk of complications from later surgical procedures to reshape ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients rarely have excess skin removed after weight loss surgery, although it can be a bother for people who've shed a lot of pounds, a new poll suggests. Plastic ...

For patients with massive weight loss after bariatric surgery, subsequent body contouring to remove excess skin is not itself associated with long-term weight loss, reports a study in the June issue ...

Weight loss surgery changes lives. Patients who have struggled for years - sometimes decades - with obesity finally achieve ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tens of thousands of people each year achieve dramatic weight loss by undergoing bariatric surgery. According to the American Society for Metabolic and ...

Dr. Sharma spoke to Community Impact about body contouring procedures including what to look for in a provider, what post-operative care looks like and more.

Tighten your skin with this non-surgical procedure. J Plasta is precision repair using controlled heat to target specific areas. Contour your abdomen, hips, flanks, buttocks, or other body areas to ...

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Patients who have had weight loss surgery rarely have excess skin removed, although it can be such a bother for people who have shed a lot of weight that it has a negative impact ...