Innovative Weight-Loss Surgery (Garden City News) Mercy Medical Center has become the first hospital on Long Island to offer a new single-incision Lap-Band(r) (laparoscopic gastric banding) procedure for weight loss surgery.
Synovis anticipates gains from weight-loss surgeries (Pioneer Press) Even if the recession prompts some patients to delay weight-loss surgery, executives at St. Paul-based Synovis Life Technologies are bullish about the prospects for their top product — a buttress made of biomaterials that is used in the procedures.
Weight loss center settles $20 million sex-bias suit (Baltimore Sun) Pure Weight Loss Inc., formerly LA Weight Loss Centers, has to pay $20 million to settle a sex-discrimination lawsuit alleging that the Pennsylvania chain refused to hire men, according to a consent decree approved Monday by Baltimore-based U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. The company has promised to pay nearly $17 million in back pay and $3 million in punitive damages to qualified men ...
