Summary
A revolutionary form of stomach surgery is helping thousands of obese Europeans shed weight.
Health Editor BARRY NELSON discovers why so few such operations are done in the North-EastSee the full content of this document
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The Band That Beats the Bulge
KEYHOLE surgeon Hasan Bandi is a frustrated man.
He has the rare skills needed to transform the lives of hugely overweight people, but tightly controlled NHS funding means that a relatively new technique known as bariatric surgery - which restricts stomach capacity and fools the brain into eating less - is hardly ever done in the North-East.Mr Bandi, a laparoscopic (keyhole sur...See the full content of this document
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