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FDA Issues Warnings About Misleading Lap-Band Ads

FDA Issues Warnings About Misleading Lap-Band Ads

The FDA has issued warning letters to eight surgical centers in California and a marketing firm behind the 1-800-GET-THIN number for misleading advertising of the Lap-Band, an implanted device intended to promote weight loss in severely obese individuals. [More]

FDA Approves Lap-Band Surgery For Not-As-Obese Patients

FDA Approves Lap-Band Surgery For Not-As-Obese Patients

The folks at Allergan, the company behind the popular Lap-Band weight loss surgery, have 26 million reasons to cheer today. After all, that’s the number of potential new Lap-Band patients now that the FDA has lowered the minimum weight loss requirements for the procedure. [More]