Lap-Band surgeries halted at 2 LA clinics:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46309892/#.TzLxccjNlpw

Is anyone impacted by this? I hope not. Kind of scary what may be going on.

This place has been in the news a lot recently. They've had 5 deaths and are in a TON of legal trouble. I'm glad they're coming down on them hard. It's idiots like them that make people fearful of Lap-Band and uninformed.

I don't think that's an indictment of the band or its safety. It's about poor medical and surgical practice, and I'm glad Allergan is refusing to sell bands to that program now. It's scary to think of general surgeons jumping on the bandwagon without fully understanding endoscopic and bariatric surgery and all the patient education and support it requires. I have banded acquaintances in California who are livid when they see huge billboards advertising clinics like that place who promise effortless weight loss.