Long Beach, California (CNN)-- Dr. Mathias "Mal" Fobi may hail from Cameroon, West Africa, but he's made a name for himself as Hollywood's "weight-loss surgeon to the stars." Fobi has helped ...

Last year Marie Johnson and her daughter Ruthie Rooks both decided to have gastric bypass surgery. Johnson, who weighed 365 pounds, had the operation first; her daughter, who weighed more than 500 ...

READY -- by SJAs 2005 comes to close, it will come as no surprise that the No. 1 personal resolution for the new year is weight loss. In tribute to all those wanting to shed the extra weight, I offer ...

Today Deborah Roberts is a happy woman. A busy mother and wife, Roberts is in her 30s and has a job that she loves and an active life. Two years ago, though, she was very unhappy. She weighed 270 ...

CARSON CITY -- An attorney for the survivors of a 52-year-old woman who died after surgery to cure her obesity asked the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit against two Las Vegas ...

A Los Angeles-area doctor who lent his name to a type of stomach-shrinking surgery failed to obtain the full informed consent of 175 patients implanted with an experimental medical device, according ...

The team of doctors including Dr Mohit Bhandari (third from left) and Dr Mathias Fobi (wearing glasses), who operated on Zoya Khan After two years of being bed-ridden due to acute obesity, ...

American weight loss surgeon Dr Mathias Fobi will train doctors at the state-run JJ Hospital, Byculla, Priyanka Vora reports. American weight loss surgeon Dr Mathias Fobi will train doctors at the ...

Until the late 1800s, physicians bled their patients. And until two Australian researchers discovered in the early 1980s that most stomach ulcers were caused by infection from H. pylori bacteria, a ...