Laparoscopic gastric banding (LAP-band) is a bariatric surgery that restricts the amount of food you can consume. A soft silicone ring is secured to the top of your stomach, reducing it to the ...

Stomach surgery has developed in a broken-gaited fashion ... gate valve between stomach and duodenum by slitting its muscular ring, or “sphincter” (fourth diagram). The tissue is stretched ...

Options are emerging for the tens of millions of people who stop taking GLP-1 drugs because of side effects, cost or ...

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic help with weight loss, but how do they stack up against bariatric surgery? A new study breaks it ...

Before surgery ... which helps prevent stomach acid from backing up into it. With the LINX procedure, your doctor uses a laparoscope to put a ring of titanium beads around the outside of your ...

Early surgery for hernia consisted mainly of stitching the diaphragm to restore the hiatus to its natural, former size and putting the stomach back in place. This worked well for most patients ...

The type of surgery you need depends on where the cancer is in your stomach. Find out about the different types of surgery for stomach cancer, what happens before surgery and how you might feel after ...