Johns Hopkins Medicine: Aspiration Therapy

There are a lot of ideas across the medical community on how to curb the obesity epidemic. Non-surgical control of weight is making great strides.
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Comment on: A Modified Inpatient Eating Disorders Treatment Protocol for Post-Bariatric Surgery Patients: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Response August 21, 2019

Benefits of bariatric surgery are vast and transcend weight loss, including long-term improvements in medical comorbidities, psychiatric disorders, and overall psychosocial functioning [1-5]. Despite the remarkable benefits of bariatric surgery, a subgroup of individuals may be susceptible to continued or de novo maladaptive eating behaviors post-operatively [6]. Most research in this area has focused on […]

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