420-Pound Teen to Get Free Gastric Bypass
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HOUSTON - Two doctors and a hospital offered a free gastric bypass to a 420-pound teenager after another medical center canceled the procedure because his insurance would not pay for it.    Doctors at Obesity Surgery Specialists said 16-year-old Brandon Bennett needs the operation for a chance at a healthy life...
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By Jennifer Kapiolani Saxton, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 9--EDWARDSVILLE -- A healthy life is much more than just eating right and exercising, said a Lincoln Middle School student Thursday during the school's health fair.
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NBC's Al Roker reports on his health since his gastric bypass surgery, and the potential dangers and benefits involved in the procedure, in an hour-long special to air Friday night on "Dateline NBC."
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For more than three weeks, despite medical tests and home remedies, a teenager has been hiccuping. A lot.
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A Houston surgery center has offered to donate a gastric bypass operation to a 420-pound boy who needs the procedure for a chance at a healthy life.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A polypropylene mesh can help shield gastric bypass patients from a common and debilitating complication, researchers say.
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Teenager Jeffrey Trimble used to wolf down as many as six cheeseburgers in a day and wasn't worried about being overweight. But then his school sent home an obesity report card.
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WHEELING, W.Va. - Michael Warren had a lot of lose. The 20-year-old Wintersville resident who once tipped the scales at more than 300 pounds lost 125 pounds in 18 months to pursue a career in law enforcement.
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TUESDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Poor, older teenagers are more likely to be overweight than their well-off counterparts.
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The parent of the Pizza Hut, Taco  Bell and KFC fast-food chains will give out free gym  memberships to customers beginning Jan. 1 in a bid to win over  consumers resolved to limit fatty foods in the New Year.
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The use of surgery to treat obesity  has increased greatly among U.S. adolescents in recent years,  with the number of operations tripling from 2000 to 2003,  according to a study published on Monday.
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DALLAS -- A man who weighed 558 pounds when a Missouri judge prevented him from adopting a child he and his wife had taken into their home underwent gastric bypass surgery Friday in a bid to win the child back.
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Fourteen-year-old Travis Marcus left the Arkansas Children Hospital Thursday after giving his surgeon a bear hug. Marcus is the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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HOUSTON A Houston surgery center has offered to donate a gastric bypass operation to a 420-pound boy whose insurance company won&#39;t pay for it.
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Fourteen-year-old Travis Marcus left the Arkansas Children Hospital Thursday after giving his surgeon a bear hug. Macon is the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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(HealthDay News) -- Obesity surgery helps severely obese people lose weight by  reducing the size of the stomach, by bypassing a portion of the body's digestive system, or a combination of these procedures.
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TUESDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- A still-small but growing number of teens are undergoing bariatric surgery, which reduces the size of the stomach, to treat obesity.