Decreasing the size of the stomach limits the amount of food you can eat, which helps you lose weight quickly. The surgery may also lead to hormonal changes that make you feel hungry less often. This article takes a closer look at the purpose of gastric sleeve surgery, the criteria you must meet to be eligible for it, and tests and labs to expect. Diagnoses Related to Gastric Sleeve Surgery The main goal of gastric sleeve surgery is to aid weight loss to prevent or improve medical conditions associated with obesity....

Gattuso’s side had taken a 1-0 lead on the night through Hakan Calhanoglu’s stunning long-range strike, cutting the aggregate score to 2-1 in Arsenal’s favour. But six minutes before half-time, Welbeck seemed to go to ground in the area under minimal contact from Ricardo Rodriguez, with referee Jonas Eriksson subsequently pointing to the spot. Milan never recovered and Arsenal ultimately added further goals from Granit Xhaka and Welbeck in the second half, but Gattuso was keen to not lay the blame entirely at the feet of the referee....

Skipper and Ping were already a bonded pair when they came to the Berlin Zoo in April 2019. When they were introduced to the general population, they immediately started displaying a desire to become parents. According to German news agency DPA, the duo would snatch fish and stones and sit on them to try and make them hatch. Zoo officials chose to harness that parental instinct with a real egg laid by another bird in the group....

You worked at GE Capital in the ’80s. How did a company that started out making light bulbs end up with such a high-powered financing arm? At that time, GE Capital was important, but not as important as it became during the following 15 years. It was willing to take chances on companies that few others would, but it expected to get paid for its risk-taking, something I admired. Jack [Welch] saw the arbitrage opportunity between the extremely low-cost at which GE could borrow—given its AAA-credit rating—and what it could charge borrowers....

Some of the bad arguments I have heard from those who support research using embryonic stem cells include the following: These are bad reasons because appealing to healing is not enough. The healing knowledge must come from morally defensible research. From 1932-1972, almost 400 poor black men in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study were neither informed of their infection nor treated with penicillin—all for the purpose of gaining medical knowledge....

Treating women, particularly pretty women, as meat is not a new social pathology or a new sin. It is as old as women and men. I am sure that among the early hominoids there were women with rapturously beautiful body hair who were harassed and pursued. In the Bible the treating of women as meat is called harlotry. In Leviticus 19:29 we read this cautionary law: “Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness....

Steratore used a folded card/sheet of paper to help him make an important call on a measurement. Dallas QB Dak Prescott barely converted on a fourth-down play, with the ball reaching the sticks by . . . well, the width of the card. PLAYOFF PICTURE: Where Cowboys stand after Sunday games Steratore said he didn’t need the card to make the call, so why use it at all? That’s where Steratore lost us....

NEWSWEEK: What do these 30 genes normally do in a healthy person’s body? Richard Young: There was a very, very important discovery made about a decade ago, which was that a specialized class of “regulatory T cells” was controlling the immune system’s arms of attack. Now, the million-dollar question is why this wonderful system that keeps you healthy might turn against you and begin to attack your own body. And it turns out that in these autoimmune disorders, there are genetic defects in the regulatory T cells, which would otherwise be a check on the rest of the immune system....

NEWSWEEK: Your center reports that there are now genetic tests for more than 1,500 diseases and conditions. Examples? Kathy Hudson: Most of them are for rare diseases that are hard to pronounce. They range from tests for birth defects and mental retardation to tests for various types of cancers, like retinoblastoma, breast cancer and colon cancer. And there are some tests for diseases that used to be considered quite fatal but are getting better with new therapies....

College conservatives have no problem with this, and not just because of the trouble her gaffes cause her husband. Though zealous campaign staff might salivate over the prospect of the straight-shooting wife of a presidential candidate refusing to adhere to talking points, young conservatives like myself want this election to be about the issues. We were actually pleased and surprised when Internet rumors of a John Kerry intern scandal disintegrated....

In the GENEXT poll, only 47 percent of young voters approve of Bush’s performance in office, echoing the 48 percent of all registered voters who approved of the president in an AP-Ipsos poll conducted at the same time as the GENEXT poll. A mere 40 percent of 18-29 year olds think that America is headed in the right direction, while 58 percent of young voters think the country is on the wrong track....

Shortly after his surprise decision to pull U.S. forces from certain positions in north-eastern Syria last week, Trump threatened on Twitter to “destroy and obliterate” Turkey’s economy if the country does anything “off limits.” Six days later, after Turkey attacked U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in the area, the president appeared to change his position in another tweet, where he claimed it is “very smart not to be involved in the intense fighting....

“If you can make federal laws to protect the bird, which is the Bald Eagle, you can make federal laws to protect people of color,” Philonise Floyd said. Since Floyd’s death, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering the Black man. Three other officers who responded to the call regarding a counterfeit $20 bill will go to trial early next year after a judge approved a request to delay....

According to a lawsuit filed in a Florida court, both Warren and Buttigieg acted with malice or “at a minimum a reckless disregard for the truth” after they tweeted about Martin on February 5 on what would have been his 25th birthday. Zimmerman shot and killed the 17-year-old Martin, who was unarmed, in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012. A jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder after his lawyers argued he was acting in self-defense....

The victim was found with a gunshot wound to his chest by officers who responded to 608 Hammock Street in Griffin at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday. The child was rushed to the Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital and later died as a result of the injury. Investigators have said the preliminary probe suggests three children stumbled on the gun in a wooded area and believed it was a toy, Fox 5 reported....

During a Tuesday interview with Fox News, Perdue said he was “delighted” that President Donald Trump signed the COVID-19 bill into law, but blamed Democrats for the bill’s delay. “Look, this should have been done four months ago, that’s what the president’s been saying for the last four months, but we were obstructed in the Senate by the Democrats who were playing presidential politics, the first time in November, and now they’re playing senatorial politics, before the January fifth election,” said Perdue....

Dominic Box, of Savannah, was fired from Vaden Nissan on Friday after he posted online videos of himself participating in the pro-Donald Trump protests supporting his baseless claims of election fraud, The Current first reported. Vaden Nissan manager Mike McCann did not confirm the reason for his termination, but The Current reports Nissan’s corporate office and Vaden Nissan received several complaints about Box’s appearance at the apparent insurrection attempt in which five people died, including a police officer....

Dawson told the local News4Jax TV news station that he and his son were celebrating his son’s graduation when Langdale threatened to murder him. “I’ve been watching [your son] in my rearview mirror,” Langdale allegedly said, according to Dawson. “He doesn’t need to brush up against my car. He’s not worth enough to brush up against my car. Don’t ever come up beside my car again.” Dawson claims that he tried to calm Langdale down, but Langdale brandished a gun and called Dawson a racial slur, allegedly stating, “I’ll shoot you....

On Wednesday Kemp issued an order prohibiting cities and counties from issuing requirements for personal protective equipment, including masks, be worn. This move went against several municipalities in the state that had made such mandates, including the city of Atlanta. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom’s office told Newsweek on Thursday that her order remains in place and Kemp has subsequently filed a lawsuit against Bottoms and the Atlanta City Council to overturn the requirement for masks in the city....