Weight-loss experts predict 5 major treatment changes likely to emerge in 2026
Shift from 'simple weight loss' to 'multi-system' drugs touted as the most important change Big shifts are expected to keep reshaping the weight-loss...
Obesity and overweight
Key facts In 2022, 1 in 8 people in the world were living with obesity. Worldwide adult obesity has more than doubled since 1990,...
Who actually qualifies for bariatric surgery—and which operation fits whom?
Bariatric (metabolic) surgery isn’t a shortcut; it’s a medical treatment for a chronic disease. The latest indications broadened access because the evidence for health...
Bariatric surgery reduces liver complications in obese patients with cirrhosis
Bariatric surgery reduces liver complications in obese patients with cirrhosis Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who...
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Dear Valued Patients, Our practice phone lines are temporarily down for maintenance. Patients to please contact us, via email or on the hospital internal lines...
Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy and Toupet Funduplication for Achalasia
Achalasia is a cause of dysphagia. This is an educational video briefly reviewing the pathology of Achalasia as a cause of dysphagia. The patient...
New way to target & kill some rapidly dividing breast cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unharmed
[caption id="attachment_846" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Women Breast Cancer Support[/caption] Selective Core Cell Attacks Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Oxford, say they...
Is obesity a risk factor for serious COVID-19 infection
Overweight South Africans can take measures to protect themselves [caption id="attachment_810" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Young man measuring his weight on weighing scale in clinic[/caption] Studies...
Weight of Covid-19 evidence adds to obesity burden for South Africans
The following is an article published in The Times Live 13 May 2020, by Journalist, Sipokazi Fokazi https://select.timeslive.co.za/news/2020-05-12-weight-of-covid-19-evidence-adds-to-obesity-burden-for-south-africans/ She interviewed Dr Gert Du Toit regarding the...
Success Story -Local woman on her gastric bypass journey: ‘I had surgery and lost 20kg’
[caption id="attachment_229" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Khanyiswa Thusi is on track 20KG to achieve her goal weight after she had successful gastric bypass surgery (Photo: YOU).[/caption]...
Local couple: ‘Together, we lost over 100kg after surgery.’
The Deetlefs have battled their weight for most of their lives. They got a new lease on life, after undergoing gastric bypass surgery. A...
The skinny on bariatric surgery
Gastric bypass surgery is helping obese people slim and overcome life-threatening illnesses. Bernadette Wolhuter spoke to two surgeons who are changing their patients’ lives....