ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic doctors have unveiled a new minimally-invasive procedure to help patients lose weight. Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty is a two-hour outpatient procedure for overweight ...

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WASHINGTON -- Endoscopic gastric fundus mucosal ablation (GFMA) as a means of reducing production of the hunger-modulating hormone ghrelin was technically feasible and safe in a first-in-human study, ...

Which of the two most common bariatric surgeries - gastric sleeve or gastric bypass - has the highest subsequent risk of additional operations or procedures? According to a study published in the ...

Physicians should warn Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients of reduced tolerance of alcohol after surgery, according to a Lancet report. Peter Holt, MD, of Rockefeller University in New York, wrote that ...

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A new analysis of hospital data showed that patients discharged within one day after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery had higher mortality rates, according to a report by Internal Medical ...

Every year more than 100,000 U.S. patients undergo gastric bypass surgery for the treatment of obesity. Experience now shows approximately 20 percent of these patients will regain weight within a few ...

Compared with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy was associated with a lower risk for subsequent abdominal surgery or endoscopy in a new study that examined the two bariatric procedures. In ...