A hospital in Vietnam reported on Tuesday night that its doctors had successfully performed emergency endoscopy, laparoscopic surgery, and open surgery on a two-year-old girl who swallowed 27 magnets, ...

WVU Medicine is playing a lead role in a national clinical study of a minimally invasive surgical procedure for people who've ...

A new nasal delivery method for amifostine could protect healthy tissue during pancreatic cancer radiation therapy, ...

Peptic ulcer disease is a common digestive disorder in which acid and digestive enzymes cause the lining of the stomach or the first part of the small intestine (duodenum) to erode. A peptic ulcer ...

Both Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy reduced health care expenditures after surgery for adults with type 2 diabetes and obesity, according to data published in Annals of Internal ...

This study demonstrated differences in the transcriptional regulation of FFA sensors, FFAR1, FFAR4, GPR119 and CD36, in the human duodenum in obesity. Further investigations into the in vivo ...

Q. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who’s running for president, had obesity surgery. What exactly did he have done and does it work? A. Gov. Christie had Adjustable Gastric Band surgery ...