Weight-Loss Surgery May Also Help Menstruation, Skin, Hair

Title: Weight-Loss Surgery May Also Help Menstruation, Skin, Hair Category: Health News Created: 5/11/2012 4:06:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM

'Just smelling food fills me up'

'How gastric band surgery changed my life at 17'

Gastric bypass death brings focus on risks

While a gastric bypass can help severely obese people maintain a healthier weight and in some cases even cure diabetes, the surgery has its own set of risks.

Bariatric surgery maintains, doesn’t gain

Once a fast-growing procedure, its numbers have plateaued because of the deep recession and other societal forces.

Iron deficiency anemia can be helped by diet

Posted May 14, 2012, at 3:58 p.m. If you are a woman that has had less energy lately, been more irritable and weak, you may want to have your primary care physician check your iron status. It’s not that men don’t get iron deficiency anemia, or IDA, but it’s more common in women.