An FDA advisory committee voted 8 to 2 that Allergan's Lap-Band device is safe enough to use in patients who are just moderately overweight with a BMI as low as 30. The stomach-shrinking device is ...

After dealing with safety concerns, congressional scrutiny, lawsuits and other complaints, Allergan ($AGN) abandoned plans to pursue expanded use of its Lap-Band anti ...

Well, this is potentially ominous. Allergan ($AGN) has been slapped with a subpoena from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services ...

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 ...

Regulators have approved Irvine-based Allergan Inc.’s Lap-Band weight-loss device for more patients. The move expands the use of the surgically implanted adjustable silicon stomach band to patients ...

NEW YORK, March 21 (Reuters) - Nearly half of patients implanted with Allergan's Lap-Band weight-loss device needed to have it removed within 12 years, Belgian researchers said on Monday, in a small ...

Federal health officials have issued warnings to eight surgical centers and an advertising firm in California for misleading advertisements promoting the lap band. It is a stomach-restricting device ...

A study of the two most popular weight-loss surgeries found obese diabetics who had gastric bypass surgery lost 64 percent of their excess weight after a year, compared with 36 percent in those ...

Apollo Endosurgery sold its Lap-Band gastric banding device to ReShape Lifesciences for $17 million and acquired ReShape’s intragastric balloon device, MassDevice reports. 1. Apollo will discontinue ...