Obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery can manage without opioids, according to a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Research is paving the way for opioid-free treatment during and ...

Bariatric surgery patients who used opiates to control chronic pain before surgery are more likely to increase opiate use after surgery, according to an article published in The Journal of the ...

Surgical weight loss reduces pain in Black and Hispanic patients, yielding the greatest benefit for pain reduction within the first three months after surgery and decreasing pain faster among Hispanic ...

Bariatric surgeries are typically safe and require thorough preparation and follow-up. Life-threatening complications are rare, but possible.

Hundreds of bariatric surgery centers were able to successfully implement the Bariatric Surgery Targeting Opioid Prescribing (BSTOP) protocol and reduce their intraoperative, postoperative, and ...

Treatment with incretin-based weight-loss medications, like GLP-1 receptor agonists, after bariatric surgery was associated with significantly lower risks of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and initiation ...

High Fat-Free Mass Loss Can Worsen Prognosis in Older Adults Patients aged 45 years or older who lost a large amount of total weight or a disproportionately high share of lean tissue after bariatric ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. While the use of weight-loss drugs is on the rise, they join a suite of already-common interventions known as bariatric ...