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Innovative Weight-Loss Surgery (Garden City News)

Mercy Medical Center has become the first hospital on Long Island to offer a new single-incision Lap-Band(r) (laparoscopic gastric banding) procedure for weight loss surgery.

Synovis anticipates gains from weight-loss surgeries (Pioneer Press)

Even if the recession prompts some patients to delay weight-loss surgery, executives at St. Paul-based Synovis Life Technologies are bullish about the prospects for their top product — a buttress made of biomaterials that is used in the procedures.

Weight loss super pill? (WAFB Baton Rouge)

Is it a weight loss super pill? Scientists at Baton Rouge's Pennington Biomedical Research Center say it's possible.

Weight loss center settles $20 million sex-bias suit (Baltimore Sun)

Pure Weight Loss Inc., formerly LA Weight Loss Centers, has to pay $20 million to settle a sex-discrimination lawsuit alleging that the Pennsylvania chain refused to hire men, according to a consent decree approved Monday by Baltimore-based U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. The company has promised to pay nearly $17 million in back pay and $3 million in punitive damages to qualified men ...

Exercise may speed weight loss after gastric bypass (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

People who've undergone surgery to manage their obesity may lose more weight if they start exercising, a new study suggests.