NEWS & RESOURCES
NEWS & RESOURCES
DOCTOR’S 40KG OBESITY FIGHT: ‘I WAS POISONING MY BODY WITH FOOD’
After years of feeling ‘tired of being tired’, Blacktown Hospital’s Dr Ramy Bishay fought off obesity and has now dedicated his career to helping others do the same. At 120kg, Dr Bishay realised he was not fully living his life. “Getting healthy felt too hard to do,” Dr Bishay said.
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WE’RE LOSING THE BATTLE WITH THE BULGE Blacktown is at “critical mass” and the head of its hospital’s new weight loss clinic warns the increasing rate of people being diagnosed as obese and overweight is not slowing down.Doctor Ramy Bishay said about 70 per cent of people in the Blacktown local
THE PLOT THICKENS…THERE ARE ACTUALLY 5 TYPES OF DIABETES!
What do SAID, SIDD, MOD, MARD and SIRD stand for? Find out.
LIFESTYLE CHANGES LEADING TO DIABETES REMISSION
A first of its kind, this study was a randomised controlled trial evaluating intensive lifestyle changes leading to diabetes remission in nearly 1/2 of patients. Enjoy reading and come and talk to me about it!
WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY AND DIABETES ‘CURE’
Weight Loss surgery (gastric bypass) sees 50% of people with diabetes, free of the disease after 12 years.
CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH IN PEOPLE WITH DIABETES
All eyes on diabetes as the challenge is revealed. Dr Ramy Bishay joins a team of health professionals to speak of the disparity of treating patients with heart problems and diabetes appropriately.
SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM (MILD THYROID FAILURE) IN THE ELDERLY
No apparent benefit of treating subclinical hypothyroidism (mild thyroid failure) in elderly people.
WANT A MEDICAL OVERVIEW OF POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME (PCOS)?
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