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 ...

A closer look at robotic bariatric surgery after a woman lost 10 kg following AIIMS Rishikesh's first such successful ...

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 ...

Woman reveals what it feels like to shed over 90 kgs after drastic weight loss: 'I am less than half the person I was 3 years ago'.

Each year, there are thousands of people waiting for a kidney or liver transplant in the U.S. Some of those transplant ...

The current screening recommendations are upper endoscopy with biopsies each year. Because hereditary diffuse stomach cancer is nearly impossible to detect at an early stage, however, the recommended ...

Types of surgery: Procedures like gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy can lead to significant weight loss and hormonal ...

Robot Surgery Center (Center Director Shin Jung-kyu) held a symposium at 4 p.m. on the 26th in the grand education room on ...

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 ...