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Weight Management | July 20, 2023
What Are the Benefits of Bariatric Weight-Loss Surgery?
People with severe obesity and obesity-related conditions are at high risk of other serious illnesses. Bariatric surgery can help.
Health and Wellness | August 26, 2022
Weight-Loss Solutions for Obesity and Related Conditions
Scripps offers the most common and latest weight-loss procedures, including gastric sleeve, gastric bypass and SADI. Learn how they work.
Health and Wellness | August 17, 2022
Bariatric Surgery Success Story: Elizabeth Mireles Riggs
Elizabeth Mireles Riggs lost more than 100 pounds with help from bariatric surgery. She shares her weight-loss success story at Scripps.
Health and Wellness | April 15, 2022
What Makes a Good Candidate for Weight-Loss Surgery?
Weight-loss surgery may be an option when obesity and obesity-related conditions are present and other approaches have failed.
Health and Wellness | February 9, 2022
Can Bariatric Surgery Treat Type 2 Diabetes?
Learn about evidence that weight loss surgery can be an effective treatment for Type 2 diabetes from bariatric surgery and diabetes experts at Scripps Health.
Health and Wellness | October 15, 2020
What Is Gastric Sleeve Surgery? Does It Lead to Weight Loss?
Gastric sleeve surgery, is a procedure that helps people who are severely obese lose weight by reducing the size of the stomach.
Health and Wellness | January 7, 2020
Surgical Weight-Loss Solutions (podcast)
Weight-loss experts discuss weight-loss solutions, including minimally invasive bariatric surgery. Learn who is a candidate.
Health and Wellness | December 30, 2019
Bariatric Surgery Offers Weight-Loss Options (video)
Scripps experts discuss the obesity epidemic and weight-loss surgery options. Gastric sleeve and gastric bypass are the most common.
News Releases | November 30, 2016
Pacific Bariatric Surgical Group Joins Scripps Clinic Medical Group
Pacific Bariatric Surgical Group has joined Scripps Clinic Medical Group in an agreement that expands Scripps’ surgical services in central San Diego.
Patient Stories | July 26, 2012
Lap Band Surgery Helps Student Lose Nearly Half Her Body Weight
When Jordan Button was 23 years old, she made a life-altering decision. At 5’8” and 271 pounds, she began investigating bariatric surgery.