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...more complications than young adults. In fact, only 13% of patients, age 65 and older, who had laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) - a surgical procedure that inserts a hollow band around the stomach to limit food intake - had complications. Even more compelling, nearly two-thirds of patients lost their excess weight and significantly improved their obesity-related conditions like diabetes. "No one questions whether we should offer knee or hip replacements to people over age 65," says David A. Provost, an associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who authored the study. "Weight loss surgery can provide...
...hoops before they will actually pick up the tab for bariatric surgery. Providers often require that patients lose a specified amount of weight by staying on a medically enforced diet plan. However, a new study from Duke University Medical Center found that 62% of bariatric surgery patients trimmed the excess fat regardless of whether they lost or gained 10 pounds before surgery. "There is no value in policies like this," says Dr. Eric DeMaria, the study's lead author. "If there is no value, we shouldn't use it as a requirement...
...Spectator, a result of the unwelcome interference of "cultural commentators, celebrity chefs, nanny-state ministers and controlling wives." Other critics see Whole Foods 30 varieties of tomatoes and the like as indicators that the healthy instinct to seek organic and local produce is being channeled into American-style consumerist excess. "Whole Foods is over the top," wrote one London newspaper commentator. "It's Americanism gone...
...specializes in corn ethanol, estimates that an additional 400 projects in various stages of development could add 28 billion gal. to the RFA's conservative figures. Add 5 billion to 10 billion unannounced gal. that Tierney expects to hit the market in a few years, and "we'll have excess capacity before 2012," when Bush wants at least 7.5 billion gal. available. "That means margins will get squeezed and there's a glut," Tierney notes, adding that it may take five years for such a market to sort itself...
...plodding along at a snail's pace over the past five years, stem-cell research-at least the scientific side of it-took a few bold steps forward Wednesday. As Congress gets set to vote on legislation that would expand federal funding for the field to include studies on excess IVF embryos, researchers in the U.S. and Japan announced exciting advances in their ability to turn back the clock on older, adult cells and get them to generate embryonic stem cells. The findings could expand the ways that doctors and patients eventually generate customized stem cells for treatments...