BRUSSELS — In the face of ever-increasing demand, surgical techniques enabling significant weight loss are on the rise. It is simpler and less invasive to perform anastomosis by compression with two ...

DMR may offer a safe, effective, and lasting way to maintain drug-free weight loss following GLP-1 RA discontinuation.

A SIMPLE ‘gut reset’ procedure could prevent weight regain after injections, helping patients retain 80 per cent of their fat ...

This trial provided initial evidence that an investigational endoscopic procedure, duodenal mucosal resurfacing, may offer a safe, effective, and lasting way to maintain drug-free weight loss ...

Vannette Olvera struggled with her weight her whole life — that is, until two years ago. In August 2023, the 33-year-old Clark County resident underwent duodenal switch surgery at PeaceHealth ...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By ...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract. However, the duodenal location is less common. Nowadays, surgery is still the only curative ...

Gastrointestinal cancer surgeons at the UC San Francisco have performed the health system’s 15,000th robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery, making it the first University of California ...

Despite advances in cancer treatment, pancreatic cancer still has a poor prognosis and has one of the lowest survival rates of any cancer. The Whipple procedure, also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy, ...

The number of metabolic and bariatric surgery procedures in the United States dropped below 200,000 in 2024 for the first ...