Anyone who suffers from heartburn will tell you how uncomfortable it is to enjoy simple pleasures like eating and drinking. Although there is an abundance of tablets and liquids available both over the counter and on prescription, they aren’t always 100 percent... Read more
Quick Tips for Ramadan and Fasting After Weight Loss Surgery Don’t fall off the weight loss wagon, using Ramadan as the excuse that pushed you off! It’s important to continue eating your normal healthy diet. All of your meal should remain based on lean protein foods... Read more
Talk at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Meeting in Brisbane by Sonia Tran, Amjid Riaz, Joel Zhou, Kirsten Hepburn and Michael Talbot An association between creation of an Acute Surgical Unit (ASU) and improved outcomes in the management of acute... Read more
Talk at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Meeting in Brisbane by: Ahmed Rahman, Amjid Riaz, William Hawkins and Michael Talbot Revision Bariatric surgery is technically demanding and associated with high morbidity rates due to formation of adhesions and... Read more
Weight loss surgery is designed in general to restrict the amount of food that a patient is able to consume following surgery. However as we have covered in one of our previous blogs (Making the most of a smaller stomach after surgery), just because the volumes you... Read more
We live in a very modern world with access to whatever information we require at our fingertips thanks to the internet and smartphones; not to mention tablets, laptops, computers, televisions! We rarely pick up a book to read yet download books to our kindles or... Read more