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'medical corridor' gets another tenantWeight Loss Surgical Center is the newest tenant in the medical-retail center near 34th and Ridge RoadThe relocation to 3460 N. Ridge Road -- informally called the Hearth and Home Center after a former anchor tenant -- is part of Weight Loss Surgical Center's plan to maximize exposure, said president and chief executive Mike Nemechek.Nemechek said he considered Towne West Square and Towne East Square malls, but ultimately decided to stay on Ridge Road just south of K-96, a growing area often refer ...

Source: The Wichita Eagle   Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:07:28

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Dr. Caldron has recently opened the Week End Weight Loss Center for patients in the San Fernando Valley. The new clinic, featuring the HCG Diet, will be open on Friday, Saturday and Sundays, and is the only medical weight loss and obesity treatment center open specifically on the weekends in the region. Obesity is becoming an epidemic in the United States and with increasing cases across all ethnic, racial and socioeconomic populations, and age groups. Dr. Caldron, a Board Certified Bariatric Physician graduate from UCLA School of Med ...

Source: PRWeb   Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:21:52

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Valley Medical Center in Renton has decided to close the Washington Bariatric & Weight Loss Center, citing business reasons.The center will no longer take new patients but is working with current patients to refer them to other clinics in the region. It will provide post-surgical care to patients for at least the next couple of months and referrals as needed.The medical center has decided to focus on core medical services, and the clinic's closure will not lead to layoffs, Valley spokeswoman Pamela Fowler said.The hospital will contac ...

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:23:37

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Police are looking for a jogger who shed more than a couple pounds while exercising in Sandy.The man was seen running in the nude right outside a Curves workout facility Wednesday morning."He went by the first time. The manager of the establishment wasn't quite sure if he was naked. She kind of took a second look and a couple moments later he ran by again. This time he smiled and waved to her and she verified that he was nude," said Sgt. Victor Quezada, Sandy Police Department.Police don't have much information to identify the man exc ...

Source: 2News Salt Lake City   Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:59:09

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Wesley Medical Center has added its first surgeon to a new multidisciplinary team designed to combat obesity.Ian Villanueva will practice bariatric surgery as part of the Wesley Surgical Weight Loss Program. He will be a member of a multidisciplinary team that will evaluate patients and offer consultations to see if weight loss surgery is right for them, the hospital says."We are excited that Dr. Villanueva will be the first fellowship-trained bariatric surgeon in Wichita, as well as the first in the state of Kansas," said Wesley CEO ...

Source: BizJournals   Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:43:06

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6 Centers Remain Open In StateL A Weight Loss announced Wednesday that it was merging four of its 10 weight loss centers in Colorado into the remaining six still operating.The company blamed the move on "adverse market conditions.""We have been in the Denver market for almost five years, and are proud to have helped thousands of clients achieve their weight loss goals," said a statement from the company.L A Weight Loss announced Wednesday that it was merging four of its 10 weight loss centers in Colorado into the remaining six still o ...

Source: KMGH 7 Denver   Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:16:12

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A local weight loss center is offering discounts to clients stood up by neighboring LA Weight Loss.The owner of Beverly Hills Weight Loss and Wellness Center on Racine Drive says she will waive the membership fee for LA Weight Loss clients.Beverly Hills is not affiliated with LA Weight Loss.So, clients who bought protein bars and other products will have to work that out with them.Nikki Simpson, Beverly Hills Weight Loss Center, said, "Unfortunately what I'm hearing from a lot of clients is they've purchased a lot of product up front ...

Source: WWAY 3 Wilmington   Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:17:29

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Customers of a weight loss counseling center in Wilmington that abruptly closed its doors are getting a special offer to continue their training.LA Weight Loss on Eastwood Road closed several weeks ago.Some customers say it came as a surprise, especially since many of them had paid for services months in advance.Tuesday, a sign on the door says their membership will be honored by Beverly Hills Weight Loss and Wellness off Racine Drive. ...

Source: WECT 6 Wilmington   Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:00:30

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The Better Business Bureau says sources tell them the LA Weight Loss center in Jacksonville is closed. You may remember a few months ago the centers in New Bern and Greenville closing. When the New Bern center shut down management in Jacksonville said those clients' contracts would be honored at their location. It seems a lot of customers are without a center to go to and short a big chunk of change.Tamara Todd says, "They'll be given their money back, they'll be given their food back, if they have anything coming to them, they'll get ...

Source: WNCT Greenville   Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:45:18

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Camp La Jolla Women's Spa Retreat Chosen for Its Great Location and Innovative Approach to Weight Loss Camp La Jolla, a leading weight loss camp for kids, teens and adults, has been named one of MSN's Top 8 fitness retreats for its beautiful location, world renowned weight loss program, and extraordinary value.MSN chose Camp La Jolla as a top fitness retreat that provides "the perfect environment to spark a top to bottom extreme makeover." Due to its reputation for life-changing weight loss success and behavior modification Camp La Jo ...

Source: Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance   Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:05:00

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Who says losing weight can't be fun? The Jewish Community Center, of Greater New Haven, held casting calls and interviews for their version of the hit reality show 'The Biggest Loser'.The JCC is looking for two teams, of six members each, to compete in the 'Largest Losers'. The teams will partake in weekly fitness and nutrition training sessions and four fitness competitions over an eight-week period.Organizers say it's a fun way to shed the extra pounds. "It's basically a competition, get people in shape," Susan Donovan, group exerci ...

Source: WTNH-TV New Haven   Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:51:07

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Houston's top weight loss and liposuction speciallty clinic is now open in the Clear Lake area. Offering the latest advances in Medical Weight Loss and Body Sculpting to include Smart Lipo Laser Liposuction and Lipodissolve, Houston Weight Loss and Lipo Centers are now convenient for those living in Pasadena, South Houston, Pearland, Friendswood, League City, Dickinson and other Galveston County cities. Houston Weight Loss and Lipo Centers have now expanded to the Clear Lake Area. With the new location located in Webster, Texas near C ...

Source: PRWeb   Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:39:33

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Now a follow-up to an ABC2 News Investigation. We told you back in January that weight loss giant LA Weight Loss was closing up shop, giving customers little notice before shutting down and holding onto their money. The fight for refunds has since intensified. ABC2 News Investigator Joce Sterman tells us what you need to do now to get back your cash.A quick look at their website and you'd think LA Weight Loss was a thriving company, ready to take your calls. But that's not the case. As the ABC2 News Investigators told you two months a ...

Source: ABC 2 Baltimore   Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:42:23

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Up to 44% of Gastric Bypass Patients Start to Regain Weight Years After Original Surgery Cincinnati Weight Loss Center, a member of the Synchrony Health Network, is one of the first weight loss surgery centers in the U.S. -- and the first in Ohio -- to offer a new Incisionless surgical procedure to reverse weight regain after gastric bypass surgery.Surgeons Brad Watkins and John Mobley started performing the procedure on March 7. The incision-free procedure, which physicians have coined "ROSE" (Restorative Obesity Surgery, Endolumenal ...

Source: PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance   Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:10:00

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Action news has confirmed that the four LA Weight Loss centers in the Fresno & Visalia market are about to close. LA Weight Loss tells action news due to market conditions they are closing the four Fresno area locations.Some employees tell us they are still being told to push these products even as the doors close.You've seen the bright bold commercials and those "then and now" pictures of people who shrunk in size using LA Weight Loss.Now, some of the counselors selling the stuff say they can no longer push a service they know they c ...

Source: KFSN-TV Fresno   Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:53:23

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Sounds strange, but it`s true. A Minot weight loss center wants its clients and anyone else to bring them as much food as possible. Curves in Minot is participating in a nationwide food drive hoping to refill local food pantries. Last year Curves donated 11 million pounds of food in the United States and the goal this year is 18 million pounds."Right now the food pantries, they always get full during at Christmas time and then there`s a lull, but there`s still a need. They decided that March is the best time to do the food drive and i ...

Source: KQCD-TV Dickinson   Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:53:28

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Three Bay area LA Weight Loss Centers are shutting down with little notice, and customers who frequent them might be even more upset about what is occurring to their files."I ignored the signs not thinking it was anything, and they said, 'Did you read the sign, we are closing March 1st,'" said Adrienne Galluppo, a current LA Weight Loss client.However, several clients said that's not the worst part of the situation.Client files were dumped in the trash behind the Terrace Oaks Plaza location in Temple Terrace.Credit card numbers, socia ...

Source: Bay News 9 Tampa Bay   Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:48:21

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When Pure Weight Loss shut its doors, it left lots of people in Connecticut complaining they were out a lot of money.It also left people out of jobs, and some former employees are saying they're out the money the were owed for working.Earlier this month, NBC 30 did a story about customers who said they were out hundreds of dollars after Pure Weight Loss closed its doors.Now, Danielle Bertothy, a former employee, claims she's owed almost $600.She said a check from the company bounced. NBC 30 spoke with other former employees who say th ...

Source: NBC 30 Connecticut   Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:37:56

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Usually when you hear about a business closing it's the workers who are outraged. But, this time Nine On Your Side is hearing from its clients. LA Weight Loss Center in New Bern is shutting down. So Nine On Your side wants to know what that means for those who have paid hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars, all up front to lose weight?The center that's at the middle of the controversy is this one in New Bern on South Glenburnie Road. We went there first to get answers, but no one was there.The center's Operations Manager works in ...

Source: WNCT Greenville   Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:37:35

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Physicians Weight Loss Centers(R), a peer leader in the weight loss industry is celebrating its 29th year in business. Physicians Weight Loss Centers(R) was founded in Akron, Ohio, February 6, 1979 by CEO Charles E. Sekeres and has grown to a nationwide Franchise with more than 75 locally owned and operated centers throughout the United States. Physicians Weight Loss Centers(R) has helped hundreds of thousands of people lose weight and keep it off through center-based supervised weight loss programs under the guidance and direction of ...

Source: R Celebrates 29th Anniversary   Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:05:02

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Monica Speer, Mrs. Florida Continental, will be available to sign autographs at Port St. Lucie Quick Weight Loss Center.Quick Weight Loss Centers is excited to announce that Mrs. Florida Continental, Monica Speer, winner of the $10,000 Quick Weight Loss Challenge, will be visiting its new Port St. Lucie Quick Weight Loss Center on February 9, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. She will be signing autographs and answering questions, and the public is invited to meet her. As Mrs. Florida, Monica Speer has become a healthy role model for women of all ag ...

Source: PRWeb via Yahoo! News   Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:01:00

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Lillian Latham, 71, loves to cook for her family."I'm a mama, and I'm a grandmama," Ms. Latham said. "I love to cook. I always have."But after all that cooking, she decided to lose some weight. Ms. Latham said she financed nearly $600 for counseling at LA Weight Loss Center in Anderson and lost roughly 10 pounds."I felt some better," she said.She was ready to lose more, but the office suddenly closed. Driving 30 miles to the LA Weight Loss center in Greenville, she said, is not possible for her, and she does not want the counseling by ...

Source: Anderson Independent-Mail   Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:07:56

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Pennsylvania Attorney General has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against the defunct Pure Weight Loss chain.Corbett said the lawsuit alleges that the Horsham, Pa., chain of weight-loss centers sold long-term contracts for food, supplements and counseling late last year knowing that the business was going to close.Some contracts were sold after Pure Weight Loss announced on its Web site in December that its roughly 400 stores, including 47 in Pennsylvania, were closing, the lawsuit said. Customers paid up to $2,000 upfront, throug ...

Source: BizJournals   Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:03:24

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Late Thursday the state's top prosecutor filed a lawsuit claiming a popular weight loss company ripped customers off. We first told you in December that Pure Weight Loss --formerly LA Weight Loss was closing its doors --leaving thousands of customers without the products and services for which they paid.Attorney General Tom Corbett is suing the Pennsylvania -based company and its owner for breaking consumer protection laws. In an exclusive interview with WBRE News, Corbett says the company sold contracts even after it announced it was ...

Source: PAHomePage.com   Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:51:57

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When one of the state's biggest diet companies shut it's doors after the beginning of the year, it left hundreds of South Florida customers not only wondering if they'd ever get their money back but also what happened to all the private medical information the centers kept on file.State prosecutors, wondering the same thing, have widened their investigation into LA Weight Loss Centers and Pure Weight Loss Centers to see if they broke any laws."All girls want to look nice and I got a couple of pounds extra," said Yaumary Rodriguez who ...

Source: CBS4 Miami   Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:10:08

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ESTBURY, N.Y. -- "Weight management is serious business. National health authorities are concerned that more than half of Americans are over weight, and for many obesity is not merely a matter of looking unattractive. It is a health hazard. Then why leave it to amateurs -- faddists, diet marketers, and celebrity promoters of the latest 'food system'?"Dr. Frederic J. Vagnini, a nationally-known anti-aging and bariatric physician specializing in cardiovascular disease, weight management, and diabetes, introduces his metabolic diagnosis ...

Source: PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance   Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:08:00

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Name Reflects Mission and Focus of National Weight Loss CompanyHORSHAM, Pa. -- The country's largest weight loss chain that offers both one-on-one counseling and the option to eat your own food is changing its name to Pure Weight Loss, Inc. from L A Weight Loss Centers, Inc.Three years ago the company was divided in half with one owner taking control of all corporate owned and operated centers (L A Weight Loss Centers, Inc.) and the other became the franchisor of the franchise owned centers. Since then the two separate companies have ...

Source: PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance   Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:07:00

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PHOENIX -- Kemeta, LLC, an innovative, palm-size breath sensor company, today announced the collaboration with Obesity Treatment Center Medical Group (OTCMG) in Sacramento, CA. Kemeta is commercializing the first of its kind, palm-size breath analyzer for the detection and quantitation of human breath acetone, a known indicator of fat metabolism. By simply blowing into the Kemeta analyzer, the user receives immediate feedback on their fat burn rate. This biofeedback can assist the user in optimizing their diet and fitness programs. Th ...

Source: PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance   Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:36:00

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BY JEFF MCKINNEYWhen his third child had life-threatening pelvic cancer 7½ years ago, the devastating event taught Dr. John Mobley the right way to treat people.A general surgeon at the time, Mobley, 43, spent most of his time caring for his then-11-week-old son and dealing with many doctors that showed him and his family little compassion.The doctor also found himself overeating - everything from potato chips to doughnuts at all times during the day - to hide his pain. That behavior caused Mobley's weight to swell from 200 pound ...

Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer   Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:30:34

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"The Weight Loss Doctor" Providing Free Body Mass Analysis and Weight Loss Surgery Advice PHOENIX, AZ -- Dr. Terry Simpson, one of the leading LAP-BAND bariatric surgeons in the Western United States of Southwest Weight Loss Centers, will be at booths 1140 and 1141 at the Arizona Women's Expo April 14 - 15, 2007 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.Dr. Simpson will be onsite to discuss the latest and safest in minimally invasive bariatric surgical procedures including the LAP-BAND procedure and its increasing impo ...

Source: Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance   Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:54:00

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Plano, Texas-area women will receive a sneak preview of a new concept in total body management at a free seminar at the LakeSide Market on March 22 at 6 p.m.Dallas, TX -- This spring, Dallas-based MedSurge Advances will introduce futureperfect, a breakthrough concept in weight loss and body sculpting for women. The first futureperfect center will be located at LakeSide Market in Plano.Women in the Plano area who are interested in learning about futureperfect are invited to attend a free informational seminar at Vintner's Cellar Custom ...

Source: PR Web   Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:12:10

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Latest Center in Moline, Ill., Marks a New Benchmark for the World's Fastest-Growing Weight Loss Program, Which Continues to Expand Its Reach While Helping Millions of Americans Lose Weight and Get HealthyL A Weight Loss, the world's largest and fastest-growing weight loss program, marked the opening of its 850th center worldwide on Feb. 9 and Feb. 10 during a two-day celebration in its new center in Moline, Ill., located on 4601 16th Street, Plaza South. The opening marked a milestone for the rapidly expanding company, which has alre ...

Source: Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance   Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:42:00

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AT&T Inc. today announced that LA Weight Loss Centers, Inc. has renewed and expanded its contract with AT&T for network and voice services. These services will allow LA Weight Loss to provide new, innovative tools, such as an e-commerce Web site, to assist its customers with its personalized weight-loss programs.The multiyear agreement, valued at $7 million, includes the installation of Private Network Transport (PNT), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology and managed routers, as well as a renewed Local and Long Distance voi ...

Source: SYS-CON Media   Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:38:45

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Pasadena police are asking for the public's help locating a woman who used stolen identities to fund shopping sprees.The woman you see got information from personal checks of clients of the Methodist Hospital's Weight Loss Center.Police say the surveillance pictures show the woman shopping at a Wal-Mart. The woman is not one of the Methodist employees accused of failing to protect patient information, but police say she is using the stolen financial information.If you have seen this woman, contact Sergeant Welsh in the Pasadena police ...

Source: ABC 13 Texas   Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:04:45

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Six types of greens. 16 protein styles. 32 dressings. 64 toppings. Pick your favorites ... Mix 'em. Toss 'em. Enjoy!For people who haven't ventured far from iceberg lettuce with tomatoes and ranch dressing when if comes to salads -- prepare to be overwhelmed at the The Dressing Room near Ventura and Van Nuys.It can only be described as a salad bonanza -- the kind of healthy, delicious variety that makes keeping your New Year's resolution to lose weight a lot easier.The Dressing Room is a healthy "fast food" hot spot that offers 16 dif ...

Source: PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance   Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:30:00

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