The procedure, known as a sleeve gastrectomy, could offer an alternative to weight-loss jabs after studies showed patients ...

Māori families with a mutation for aggressive gastric cancer have had their stomachs preemptively removed. How do you live ...

After sleeve gastrectomy, carotid intima-media thickness and multiple inflammatory, lipid, oxidative, and fibrinolytic markers decline, with oxidized LDL levels predicting carotid thickening.

According to a new study metabolic and bariatric surgery—especially gastric bypass—is linked to reduced bone mineral density, along with decreased calcium and vitamin D levels and ...

In people with stomach cancer, there may be little to no difference in survival and the chance of the cancer coming back whether the spleen is removed or kept during surgery to remove the stomach. We ...

Weight loss surgery on the NHS has more than tripled since 2020-21, with nearly 7,000 patients undergoing procedures in ...

Families who carry a genetic mutation linked to hereditary diffuse gastric cancer face a decision that sounds almost ...

When obesity is treated as a character flaw instead of a chronic illness, surgery is seen as a shortcut. But for someone with ...

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), a chronic metabolic disease, affects millions of people worldwide, causes numerous complications, (eg, cardiovascular dise ...

Passion, principles and a commitment to patient relationships are at the heart of this local surgery and bariatric practice ...

Gastric synovial sarcoma (GSS) is an exceptionally rare mesenchymal malignancy, with only 51 cases reported. We present a ...