FDA Advisory Panel Approves Expanded Use of Lap-Band

December 6, 2010 Culinary Medicine, weight loss surgery 0 Comments

On December 3, an FDA advisory panel recommended the expansion of the use of Allergan’s Lap-Band™ system for weight reduction in patients with a BMI of at least 35 kg/m2 or a BMI of at least 30 kg/m2 with one or more comorbid conditions. The panel voted 8 to 2 that the benefits of Lap-Band™ surgery were greater than the risks in patients in the new, lower weight range. While the FDA must still make the final decision, the agency usually agrees with its advisory committees.

Dr. Simpson was one of 30 weight loss surgeons involved in the study. In fact, Dr. Simpson was the only Phoenix weight loss surgeon selected to participate. Read more about this exciting new development regarding FDA approval of lower BMI guidelines for the Allergan Lap-Band.™

About the Author
You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. After a career in surgery, his focus is to make sense of the madness, and bust myths. Dr. Simpson, an advocate of culinary medicine, believes in teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and doctor “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.