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The ASMBS was established in 1983. Its founding president was Edward Eaton Mason, MD, a surgeon who is considered the "father" of bariatric or obesity surgery. [8]On August 15, 2007, the ASBS changed its name to the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) to reflect mounting clinical evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of surgery on metabolic diseases, particularly type ...
Bariatric surgery (also known as metabolic surgery or weight loss surgery) is a surgical procedure used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Long term weight loss with bariatric surgery may be achieved through alteration of gut hormones, physical reduction of stomach size ( stomach reduction surgery ), [ 3 ] reduction ...
Obesity Surgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering bariatric surgery. It was established in 1991 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is the official journal of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders. The editor-in-chief is Scott Shikora (Brigham and Women's Hospital).
It is the official journal of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, the Brazilian Society for Bariatric Surgery, and the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Cirujanos Endoscopistas. The editors-in-chief are Harvey Sugerman and Raul J. Rosenthal. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 4.496.
Huntington Health is a non-profit, community-based medical center, which provides acute medical care and community services to the western San Gabriel Valley and nearby communities. [1] In 2021, Huntington Hospital provided approximately $135 million in qualified community benefits, directed at vulnerable populations, education and training and ...
San Francisco opened its first permanent hospital in 1857. [18] A hospital has been at Potrero Avenue since 1872, [19] when the city of San Francisco built a 400-bed hospital on Potrero, an all wood hospital, one of four emergency hospitals eventually built by 1904, Central, Harbor, Park and Potrero. [20]
Leipzig, Germany, October 9, 2024 - BellaSeno GmbH, an ISO 13485 certified tissue regeneration company developing resorbable scaffolds using additive manufacturing technologies, today announced that new clinical data from the first interim report of its ongoing study evaluating the use of BellaSeno's 3D-printed resorbable breast scaffolds ...
Since 2011, the PCRM has urged Wayne State University to end its heart failure experiments on dogs. According to a 2015 review article by PCRM doctors in the American Journal of Translational Research: "insights gleaned from decades of animal-based research efforts have not been proportional to research success in terms of deciphering human heart failure and developing effective therapeutics ...