In an effort to develop less invasive methods for gastric surgery, a team in New York operated on a 25-year-old graduate student without making a cut. Using new tools developed specifically for this procedure, the patients stomach was accessed via her throat. The procedure is part of a trend to make surgery less painful and invasive, [...]
Continue reading...28. October 2008
You may be one of the millions of obese Americans that have considered a form of bariatric surgery as a weight loss solution. Each year, around 200,000 people in the U.S. alone undergo a gastric procedure. Unity Hospital in Fridley, Minnesota will be performing the Lap-Band procedure live online at 4:00 PM EDT on Thursday, Oct. 30. [...]
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3. November 2008
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