The California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF) has been requested to review the scientific evidence for the use of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) also known as vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG ...
When the Myers family learned that three of them possessed a gastric cancer gene, they made the difficult choice to have ...
Obesity is a growing epidemic in the US and is now the leading cause of several cancers, according to surgeon Dr. Chris ...
Strata Decision Technology data finds the number of bariatric surgeries in the Chicago area may have fallen by more than half ...
On Friday, a photo of La Diosa in a hospital bed sparked considerable concern among her fans on social media. The artist ...
Each year, there are thousands of people waiting for a kidney or liver transplant in the U.S. Some of those transplant ...
Robot Surgery Center (Center Director Shin Jung-kyu) held a symposium at 4 p.m. on the 26th in the grand education room on ...
Johns Hopkins surgeons take out more than 15 lymph nodes for more accurate staging. A skilled surgeon with experience operating on stomach cancer is essential for safely and effectively performing the ...
Types of surgery: Procedures like gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy can lead to significant weight loss and hormonal ...
Common types of bariatric surgery include Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD/DS), and single-anastomosis duodeno-ileal bypass with sleeve ...
It's a question stomach cancer survivor Harvey Easton had to ask himself after a diagnosis about four years ago that left him with a total gastrectomy. For Stomach Cancer Awareness Month this November ...