Power Medical Interventions(r), Inc. (OTCBB:PMII), a leader in developing and commercializing Intelligent Surgical Instruments(tm), announced today that the company's proprietary i60 Mid Cut device was used at Palmetto General Hospital in Miami, Florida in a novel procedure known as laparoscopic vertical gastroplasty.

Although weight-loss aiding gastric bypass and gastric band surgeries are expensive, they can save big bucks for not only those who undergo the procedures but, more importantly, taxpayers who fund costly fatty maintenance via Medicare.

Weight loss is a national obsession -- diet, exercise, pills and surgery. But most surgeries leave scars. Now some doctors are testing a weight loss surgery that doesn't leave a mark.

“Girls are 10 times more likely to be overweight if their mothers are obese? the Daily Mail has said. The newspaper also reports that overweight fathers are six times more likely to have obese sons, based on the results of new research.

David's life now, but he was once 650 pounds.

Six years ago, David weighed 650 pounds and hated his life. He thought about suicide until one day, he decided to make a major change - and is now a certified personal trainer.

This afternoon I stumbled upon an interesting article in the Las Vegas Sun that got me all fired up as it posed the following question: "If gastric bypass saved you money for morbidly obese people to have weight loss surgery, would you suggest they do it?"

The article clearly skewed toward "the knife," listed a variety of interesting statistics that argued that fat people are costing the taxpayers lots of money.

Using the dietary supplement probiotics after gastric-bypass surgery can help obese patients lose weight more quickly, U.S. researchers have learned.

In the first 24 hours after her gastric bypass surgery, Bonnie Thompson felt she’d made a terrible mistake.

“I thought I was going to die,? the local graphic artist says.

She was in pain and she was in an incredibly bad mood. But her temperament was so foul that her daughter quickly realized that Thompson must have been given morphine to cope with the physical trauma of having her stomach’s capacity surgically limited to about two tablespoons. Thompson reacts adversely to morphine and once the medication was changed, so too did her outlook.

Just before Christmas, Lissa Haynes' scale hit the highest number ever in their decade-long faceoff. Her weight contributed to her sleep apnea, high blood pressure and cholesterol.

 

But in the 5 1/2 months since she underwent an experimental procedure that doesn't leave any scars being tested across the country, she has been able to work out daily and has lost 50 pounds.

Probiotics are the so-called 'good' bacteria found in yoghurt as well as in over-the-counter dietary supplements that help in digestion of food.