Surgeons at Tufts-New England Medical Center's obesity management center are helping to pioneer a "pacemaker" device that could be a less intrusive - and less expensive - alternative to "stomach ...

Patrick Hetzner tried diets and exercise, just about everything short of stomach stapling to lose weight. Nothing worked. Five months ago he tried something new: a stomach pacemaker that curbed his ...

Cara Bowman from Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA has lived with severe abdominal pain, nausea, and bloating for years. After months of struggling, she was diagnosed with gastroparesis, a condition where ...

Can simple electrical stimulation help obese people lose weight? A University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientist plans to explore that possibility. Dr. Jiande Z. Chen, an associate ...