More kids having surgery for obesity
Seems that surgery for being obese is not limited to adults. CNN says more kids are receiving the operations.Exerpt:
A group of four hospitals, led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, are starting a large-scale study this spring examining how children respond to various types of weight-loss surgery, including the gastric bypass, in which a pouch is stapled off from the rest of the stomach and connected to the small intestine.
Three more hospitals have approval from the Food and Drug Administration to test how teens fare with a procedure called laparoscopic gastric banding, in which an elastic collar installed around the stomach limits how much someone can eat.
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