GLP-1 meds are all the rage for weight loss nowadays, but not everyone can safely take the drugs to shed pounds. Invasive weight-loss surgeries can often be a tough sell, too. Now, researchers at the ...

A gastric balloon is a temporary weight-loss device that goes inside your stomach. It takes up room in your stomach, so you feel full sooner and eat less. You don’t need surgery to get a gastric ...

Engineers designed a new type of gastric balloon that can be inflated and deflated as needed. It could offer an alternative for people who don't want to undergo more invasive treatments such as ...

Can you imagine a world where all you have to do is pop a pill and within three months you'll have effortlessly dropped a dress size - maybe more - without having to diet or exercise? That's the ...

A new weight-loss device that patients swallow and is then inflated inside the stomach to accelerate the sensation of fullness when eating has been launched in the UK. Obalon is a gastric balloon that ...

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It’s the latest weight loss scheme to get Brits chirping: an oral pill that expands into a gastric balloon when ingested, to make patients feel fuller faster. Launched to much buzz in the UK this week ...

The gastric balloon was approved by the FDA in July A new, non-surgical weight-loss procedure that takes less than 15 minutes has the weight-loss community buzzing. The bariatric technology – known as ...

LAS VEGAS — Adults with overweight or obesity who received a swallowable gastric balloon that deflates on its own experienced a significant decrease in body weight and cardiometabolic disease markers ...

Since 2016, at least 12 people have died worldwide soon after receiving a intragastric balloon, a new noninvasive procedure meant to help people lose weight, according to an alert released Monday by ...