Expert opinion from Animesh Hore MBBS · 4 years of experience · India A peptic ulcer is an erosion in the stomach and / or ...

The balloon is then inflated to expand the duodenal mucosa (lining). Then, using the endoscope to locate the mucosa, heat is used to destroy it. This encourages resurfacing (a new lining to grow). The ...

Expert opinion from Howard E. Lewine M.D. Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing · 40 years of experience · USA A ...

The new procedure is non-surgical with a short recovery period, and caused an average weight loss of almost 20 pounds after ...

Researchers are unveiling a new endoscopic procedure that burns part of the stomach lining and reduces the production of a so ...

In a new small trial of an experimental procedure, patients lost about 8% of their baseline weight and experienced a ...

It should be noted that early-stage stomach cancer, gastric cancer, rarely causes symptoms. Most stomach cancers are not ...

Blasting a patch of patients’ stomach lining with thermal energy curbed hunger and cut pounds, researchers reported in a small pilot study to be presented at the annual Digestive Disease Week meeting ...

The study found that salt addition to foods on the table increases the risk of stomach cancer among UK adults. Individuals ...

A new weight-loss treatment could be on the horizon with an innovative endoscopic procedure that ablates (burns) the stomach ...

Reducing the release of the "hunger hormone" ghrelin through ablation of the gastric fundus lining shows promise for weight ...

NICE's guideline on type 2 diabetes in adults describes its management. Endoscopic duodenal mucosal resurfacing is a minimally invasive procedure. It involves endoscopic exploration under general ...