Extracts from ‘Bariatric News’

A summary of the topics presented at the International Symposium can be found at the following links from Bariatric News Journal:

• How will the IDF statement change the future?
  The inaugural 'London 2012: Future of Obesity Treatment' meeting was held at the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK, on 3 February 2012. This state of the art international symposium was...
• The medical approach to obesity
  Dr David Haslam, Chairman, National Obesity Forum, outlined the problems of obesity in the general population and how as a General Practitioner, he faces obese patients on a daily basis. In his...
• Which patients gain from obesity treatment?
  In his presentation, 'Which patients stand to gain most from obesity treatment?' Dr Simon Aylwin, King's College London, UK, said that this was an almost impossible question to answer but said he...
• Pharmacological treatment for the diabetic obese patient
  Professor John Wilding, University of Liverpool, UK outlined the current status of obesity and diabetes treatment. "In the diabetic patient the important consideration is the prevention or delay in...
• Novel therapeutic approaches to obesity
  Professor Sir Steve Bloom, Imperial College London, UK, started his presentation entitled, 'Is the magic medicine on the horizon?', by stating that as far as obesity is concerned the pharmaceutical...
• Endoscopic therapies
  In a presentation on endoscopic therapy, Dr Christopher Thompson, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US, asked 'Can obesity be treated using an endoscope?'  He began his talk by acknowledging that all...
• Surgical approach to obesity
  Speaking on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr Michael Larvin stated that bariatric surgeons are facing decades of operating on morbidly obese patients as surgery is the only effective, long...
• The good, the bad and the ugly
  Dr Nicolas Christou, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, examined the outcomes form bariatric surgery in a presentation entitled, 'What are the long term outcomes of bariatric surgery? The good, the...
• What clinical evidence do we need?
  Dr Philip R Schauer, Cleveland Clinic, USA, discussed 'What clinical evidence do we need to move bariatric and metabolic surgery forward?' He began by stating bariatric and metabolic surgery has...
• The physiology behind bariatric procedures
  In his presentation Dr Carel le Roux, Imperial College London, asked, 'What does basic science today predict for future obesity treatments?' To answer this question he examined the physiology behind...
• Commissioners need data and education
  Many NHS commissioners are keen to encourage more bariatric surgery, but they "need help" from medical societies to commission the right operations for the right patients, according to one...