Losing weight is difficult. Much research has been devoted to developing drugs that promise weight loss. Few weight loss programs have been successful. Bariatric surgery has become an option, but it is not without risks. According to a study published November 26 in the journal Cell, scientists have (continued...)
There's new hope for people with Type 2 Diabetes ...
Can surgery cure Type 2 diabetes? Dr. Francesco Rubino of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center believes so, and says that gastrointestinal bypass surgery is an approach that not only may change the way the disease is treated, but that introduces a new way of thinking about diabetes. It turns out that gastrointestinal bypass operations involving rerouting the gastrointestinal tract (i.e., gastric bypass) can cause diabetes remission independently of any weight loss, and even in subjects that are not obese, which points to the small bowel as the possible site of critical mechanisms for the development of diabetes:
Clinical studies have shown that procedures that simply restrict the stomach's size (i.eContinue at news source...)