PITTSBURGH, March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a medical sleeve that would ensure a port is safe and not dangling or hanging loose," said an inventor, from Mc Allen, Texas ...

More than half of your stomach is removed, leaving a thin vertical sleeve that is about the size and shape of a banana. Surgical staples keep your new stomach closed. Because part of your stomach has ...

“We came together with the medical staff, and they’re like, ‘Well, you can wear a sleeve.’ I was not somebody who wore stuff on my legs at all, so I agreed to the one sleeve because I didn ...

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is a new non-surgical bariatric procedure that achieves a similar effect as gastric sleeve surgery. ESG requires no incisions or cutting into the stomach – the ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) led to greater excess body mass index (BMI) loss than sleeve gastrectomy in patients with severe obesity over 10 years, with the latter procedure being associated ...