New day for our Support Group
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 [...]
First SIOS Support Group for 2019: Tuesday 5 March
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 [...]
Looking ahead to Christmas and the new year
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 [...]
The link between excess weight and cancer
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 [...]
Daly Happily Quits Band of Blubbers
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 [...]
A Big Fella’s film
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 [...]
Good news for LAP-BAND Patients
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 [...]