Considerations when moving from laparoscopic to robotic assisted bariatric surgery
At the recent IFSO-EC meeting in Venice, Italy, Medtronic hosted an intriguing lunch time symposium that examined the technical and...
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Considerations when moving from laparoscopic to robotic assisted bariatric surgery
At the recent IFSO-EC meeting in Venice, Italy, Medtronic hosted an intriguing lunch time symposium that examined the technical and...
Research
Tailoring the dose of botulinum toxin and refining the injection technique is safe and effective for patients living with obesity
Gastric botulinum therapy using a novel full-stomach injection method focusing on the antrum and fundus is safe and effective in Japanese...
Morphic Medical gains CE Mark for RESET endoscopic device
Morphic Medical has received CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark approval for the RESET System, which according to the company is designed to...
Weight loss rate is a critical and statistically significant predictor of post-LSG gallstone formation
Symptomatic gallstone disease after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has an incidence rate of 16.3%, according to a study by researchers...
AI helps researchers to demystify gut bacteria
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have used a special kind of artificial intelligence (AI) called a Bayesian neural network to...
Considerations when moving from laparoscopic to robotic assisted bariatric surgery
At the recent IFSO-EC meeting in Venice, Italy, Medtronic hosted an intriguing lunch time symposium that examined the technical and...
BOMSS changes name to include all obesity specialists
Bariatric News spoke with Professor Ahmed Ahmed (Associate Professor in Metabolic Surgery and Lead Bariatric Surgeon at Imperial College...
MBS may improve depression, anxiety and non-normative eating, but slightly increase suicides and substance use disorders
Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) may improve depression, anxiety, non-normative eating, and attention, but slightly increase...
First participants dosed in Ascletis’ 13-week Phase IIa study of oral GLP-1r agonist ASC30
The first participants with obesity or overweight with at least one weight-related comorbidity have been dosed in Ascletis Pharma’s US...
Ring-augmented RYGB in patients with BMI≥50 leads to significant weight loss and improvement in obesity-related complications
Ring-augmented RYGB (raRYGB) with a MiniMizer Ring in patients with BMI≥50kg/m2, results in significant weight loss and improvements in...
Journal Watch 2/7/2025
Welcome to our regular round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...
International expert consensus statements on surgery for T2DM
An International panel of experts has published 43 statements on the nature, terminology and mechanisms of action of metabolic and...
Rerouted bile acid reduces tumour spread in colorectal cancer mouse model
Bile acid diversion in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) reduces colorectal tumour growth and metastasis independent of weight loss,...
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