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Is surgery or medication better for weight loss? Weight loss medications have been appearing everywhere on social media feeds and the news. With all medication, there are potential side effects; [...]

By medical reporter Sophie Scott and the Specialist Reporting Team's Celina Edmonds We've heard about the dangers of coronavirus for older people and those with chronic health problems like high [...]

Our last support group was a great success. It’s always nice to have our patients and staff come together to support each other and it’s a great opportunity to ask questions and share [...]

You’re Invited to Our first Support Group for 2019 on Tuesday 5th March Our Guest Speaker is Dr Rohit Kumar, who is one of our elite surgical team. He is an Australian trained and fully [...]

As we count down the days until Christmas, we could all enjoy some downtime in the sun – or maybe snow if you are adventuring far! We want to wish you all a healthy and relaxing holiday [...]

Doctors said Westerners had replaced one bad habit with another They said spiraling rates of obesity meant that cancer – once seen as a disease of old age – was now increasingly being [...]

Checkup: American golfer John Daly with his son John Jnr visits The Sydney Institute for Obesity Surgery to get his lap band surgery checked by Doctor “Phil ” Seeley . Picture: Gregg Porteous [...]

La Perouse’s Rodney Ardler is the focus of a new film, ‘Big Fella’, which confronts the crippling health effects of diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity in Indigenous [...]

Bariatric surgery not a ‘last resort’ for diabetics Weighting game over for obese adults with FDA expansion of LAP-BAND use Australia was the first in the Asia-Pacific region to [...]