LOS ANGELES — The former operator of the now-defunct 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign was sentenced Monday to seven years behind bars for using fabricated sleep studies to persuade insurance companies to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A former doctor from West Hollywood was ...

Allergan Inc. is looking to get Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its Lap-Band weight-loss device to more patients and hopes to see expanded health insurance coverage, according to its ...

Laparoscopic gastric band surgery, buoyed by an obesity epidemic and improved clinical outcomes, has become a viable option for ambulatory surgery centers, but payors have been slow in extending ...

The marketing firm 1-800-GET-THIN has promised to make Lap-Band surgery risks more prominent in future ads after receiving a warning letter from the FDA last week, according to a Los Angeles Times ...