FDA Panel’s OK for Lap-Band Surgery Stirs Critics
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View ArticleFDA Panel’s OK for Lap-Band Surgery Stirs Critics
(WOMENSENEWS)–Amy Alina isn’t happy about a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel’s vote last week to recommend that more people be allowed to use Allergan’s Lap-Band, a restrictive weight loss...
View ArticleLap-Band Critics Decry Excess Rhetoric on Weight
(WOMENSENEWS)–From NBC’s reality television show "The Biggest Loser" to the first lady’s campaign against childhood obesity, the battle of the bulge is being waged on all fronts, including the...
View ArticleFDA Asked to Rein in ‘Get Slim’ Surgery Ads
(WOMENSENEWS)–Danielle Delango expected weight loss surgery to change her life, not take it. The 25-year-old mother underwent Lap-Band surgery at Lawrence Hospital Center for Advanced Surgery in...
View ArticleLap-Band Complications Could Tie Up Nation’s E.R.
(WOMENSENEWS)–The Lap-Band is often portrayed as the quick and easy fast food drive-through version of weight-loss surgeries. Getting the device implanted around the stomach takes no more than an...
View ArticleAnti-Sex Trade Turns to Focus on Men Who Buy Sex
(WOMENSENEWS)–When Marian Hatcher speaks to men who pay for sex, she tells them about the guy who used her as his punching bag for hours on end, long after she became bruised and bloodied. "All he...
View ArticleRetail Manager Stressed by ‘Never Enough’ Sales Strategy
Connie Larson is a manager at the retail clothing chain Black House White Market. Credit: Connie Larson. (WOMENSENEWS)–For Connie Larson, 51, working as a manager in California at the retail...
View ArticleTeen Moms Get ‘No Stigma, No Shame’ Pep Talk
Gloria Malone, who got pregnant at 15, and her daughter Leilani. Credit: Alizah Salario. NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)–When Bronx City Councilwoman Annabel Palma became pregnant at age 17, she kept her...
View ArticleGrief Is Born When Fertility Drugs Don’t Deliver
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