Pam Nenaber has been promoted to chief executive officer of Banner Gateway Medical Center in north Gilbert.

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Fliers posted around Durham County offices that announce an employee weight-loss challenge pose a sobering question: Is your weight hurting you?

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MASON CITY, Iowa - An area medical center is offering a new program to help folks struggling with weight loss. Mercy Medical Center North Iowa in Mason City is opening a bariactric clinic. The clinic will offer gastric bypass and lap-band surgery to those who qualify.

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Reality television programmes which focus on extreme weight loss and drastic changes to a person’s appearance may be behind a dramatic increase in cosmetic and weight reduction surgery, according to University of Auckland researchers.

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Reuters - Obese people with diabetes are just as likely to go undiagnosed as their slimmer peers with the disease, Harvard Medical School researchers report.

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“You can run but you can’t hide.” — Brad Pitt, joking as he accepted the best actor’s award that he won last year at the Venice Film Festival for “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”

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Mason City, IA - Those in north Iowa looking to loose some weight have a new option. Mercy Medical Center of North Iowa announced it will open a bariatric center. Gastric bypass surgery and the lap-banding procedure will both be available.

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EXTREME makeover and weight loss shows are fuelling a surge in the number of Aussies seeking cosmetic surgery, psychologists have warned.

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Reuters - The rapid and substantial control of diabetes seen after gastric bypass surgery is due, at least in part, to the intestinal rearrangement involved in the procedure, the results of an animal study suggest.

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New Hampshire Sen. Bob Clegg who lost over 100 pounds after having bariatric surgery is speaking Tuesday at a forum on obesity being held in conjunction with the Republican National Convention.

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