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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?

An obese woman discusses weight-loss surgery with her bariatric surgeon.
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?

A young heavyset woman researches gastric sleeve surgery on her laptop computer as she is considering the weight-loss procedure.
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

Scripps Pharmacy at 4060 Fourth Avenue in San Diego (Hillcrest)
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.