Dr. Nandakishore Dukkipati,.a renowned Bariatric surgeon, attended as an invited faculty at the first ever international meet on Mini Gastric Bypass that was held at the Apollo, Delhi, on the 17th and 18th of July 2015. The faculty comprised senior Bariatric surgeons from India and...
The Indus Foundation’s Health-care Excellence Award for ‘Best Single Specialty Hospital’ went to Livlife, a comprehensive health-care provider based in Hyderabad. LivLife Hospitals has been recognized as an International Centre of Excellence for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. It is the first centre of its kind...
A study published in the medical journal 'The Lancet' has come up with the finding that every eighth person on the planet is now obese. Based on this, the experts from the field of medicine predict a tremendous health consequence; one of an unknown magnitude. The...
Considering the overall health care costs, obese patients with type 2 diabetes should be prioritized for Bariatric surgery over those without it. This is so because many patients see the return of diabetes after surgery and thus need fewer expenses in the future. This goes...
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As per a study published in the Lancet, Bariatric surgery is more effective than standard medication for the control of Type 2 diabetes, in the long term. The study provides data on 5-year outcomes of bariatric surgery off a random clinical trial that was designed...
At the Chalmers University of Technology, researchers have come up with a novel one - a mathematical calculation platform that makes predictions possible on the response of various diets, based on one’s to individual gut microbiome composition. The study was carried out as part of...
