Weight Loss Surgery News – November 27, 2009



Lap-Band for teensWatch this week’s WLS News to hear an encouraging report about 50 obese teenagers who underwent Lap-Band surgery–and how their lives have changed. We’ll also tell you how probiotics can affect weight loss, share details about a possible link between teenage obesity and multiple sclerosis, and explain what a new coalition is doing to persuade Congress to provide affordable health care to the morbidly obese. All that and more on this week’s WLS News.

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