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Courtesy: Ted Kyle, Editor, Conscience Health. We understand. Surgery is daunting. Bias against people living with obesity is rampant. Some friends and family will criticize. Some doctors will discourage. Health plans often make it hard. So many people feel reluctance about seeking bariatric surgery. But a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reminds us. This is not right. Bariatric surgery offers [...]

By Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA ConscienHealth.org A randomized controlled trial (RCT) in surgery is quite a challenge. For good reason, people are reluctant to sign up for a study in which they might randomly get surgery. Or not. Surgery is a big decision and leaving it to chance doesn’t sit well with most people. Yet an RCT is the very best evidence you can [...]

Dr George Petrou Liver Surgeon Port Macquarie Dear Dr Petrou, I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the Cancer Institute NSW, to thank you for your contribution to the Primary Liver Clinical Advisory Group of the Reporting for Better Cancer Outcomes (RBCO) Program. Your insight and feedback have been instrumental in expanding the RBCO Program by identifying clinically relevant reporting of [...]

Rock bottom for Mathew Agostino was when he missed out on a mining job because he was too overweight. "I passed the medical and everything, but they flagged me on my weight," the 28-year-old said. "And they pretty much said, 'No way'. "That was sort of the first time that I'd ever been told 'no' without being able to prove meself. Whereas normally, I've [...]

Adapted from an article by by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today In a recent study Bariatric surgery was associated with an extended lifespan in patients with obesity, according to a French study. In a patient study of nearly 9,000 bariatric surgery patients, those who underwent gastric bypass surgery had a 36% reduced mortality risk compared with matched controls with obesity who did not [...]