Overweight & Obesity

Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn't cure it

After gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some people—often even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery "cures" diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism

Introducing decision aids may lower surgery for arthritis

After Group Health Cooperative introduced video-based "decision aids" for people with knee and hip arthritis, rates of knee and hip replacement surgeries dropped sharply: by 38 and 26 percent, respectively, over six months. ...

Other

In trial, video helps people weigh bariatric surgery pros, cons

A video-based decision aid helped severely obese people to make more informed choices about bariatric surgery and reach more certainty about them, according to a trial involving 152 Group Health patients, e-published in Obesity ...