...she said.After getting gastric bypass surgery in 2001, however, she has...severely obese, and for it gastric bypass surgery might be the best solution...with 418 patients who had gastric bypass surgery and compared them with a...

...increasingly popular treatment is gastric bypass surgery. In the surgery, doctors...demonstrating that laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery has better outcomes. Dr...examined more than 160,000 gastric bypass surgeries in a large national database...

...fine son.I SEE WHERE THEY'RE hiking cigarette smokers' tax money and paying for morbidly obese people to get gastric bypass surgery. This is stupid and a travesty. I hate government.YOU DOG OWNERS need to start carrying plastic bags. Could...

...to give obese state employees more benefits.Wow.The legislature, in its infinite wisdom, decided to fund gastric bypass surgeries for the first 100 overweight state employees who ask for them starting in January.This, at a time when state...

...Commissioner Betty Beard's choice. One of those charities turned out to be city employee Atosha Harden's gastric bypass surgery, one of the best-kept secrets in Marble Palace history until two weeks ago when somebody spilled the beans...

...channeling $20,000 from a developer doing business with the city to a city employee and friend of Beard's for a gastric bypass surgery. No one has been convicted and sentenced. No one has been arrested. No one has been indicted on anything...

...start today." The resolution called Ms. Beard a humanitarian who helped a city employee receive lifesaving gastric bypass surgery, but because she won't support a $38 million trade, exhibit and event center "the media, some commissioners...

...least one "charitable" payment a developer appears to have made to a friend of Beard's who needed elective gastric bypass surgery. The $25,000 was allegedly paid to the city treasury in 2004 by developers of Maxwell House Apartments at...

...Augusta Utilities, Ms. Harden had health insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield. Doctors were recommending gastric bypass surgery -- an intestinal rearrangement to decrease stomach volume -- but the company wouldn't cover it, she said...

...other $20,000 to a water department employee's gastric bypass surgery. Ms. Beard said Thursday that she wasn't aware...couldn't get Blue Cross Blue Shield to approve gastric bypass surgery. She said she called the developer and asked if...