Posts Tagged ‘gastric band’
Shortcuts to a leaner future: surgical solutions to mild cases of obesity are on the rise
HEALTH product giant Allergan has announced it will follow Australia’s lead and market its stomach-shrinking Lap-Band to US doctors treating people at the low end of the obesity scale. Until now, US physicians used the surgically implanted device only for seriously obese people, although it has been used for more than a decade to treat…
Read More1st place in the PRIA State Awards for Excellence
VIVA! Communications clinched first place in the 2010 Public Relations Industry of Australia (PRIA) State Awards for Excellence Thursday, September 23 in the Health Organisations category, for our “Trimming teens with gastric banding surgery” campaign. In February 2010, our company teamed with leading Australian researchers from Monash University and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, to…
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