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Trend: Patients going to Mexico to get bariatric surgery

July 23, 2008 — 10:33am ET | By Anne Zieger
Frustrated by limits imposed by U.S. health plans--which typically require patients to have a BMI of 40--patients are increasingly going to Mexico to get bariatric surgeries done. They're doing this... Read more...

MI data suggests weight-loss surgery getting safer

June 20, 2008 — 12:37pm ET | By Anne Zieger
At least in Michigan, it appears that bariatric surgery may be getting safer. This, at least, is the conclusion suggested by first year of data collected from a registry there, maintained by a... Read more...

Trend: Hospitals spending to care for obese

March 10, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Here's another story bringing home an issue which we've covered in the past here in FierceHealthcare. With growing... Read more...