MIT engineers have revealed a new gastric balloon design that can inflate on demand to make you feel full before meals. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Imagine a professional inflating a balloon ...

Jan. 6, 2006 — -- A popular procedure in Europe called gastric ballooning seems like a great alternative to gastric-bypass surgery. All it takes is inserting a balloon into the stomach through ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators on Tuesday approved an inflatable medical balloon that aids weight loss by filling up space in the stomach. The Food and Drug Administration cleared Reshape ...

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 ...

Combining a swallowable gastric balloon with a weight loss drug may be a way to lose significant body weight, a new study suggests. In about eight months of combination treatment, participants lost an ...

If only weight loss were as easy as swallowing a pill — and now, it might be. Doctors from Italy have developed an easy-to-swallow capsule that fills with water to create a small balloon after it ...

Inflated balloons that trick the stomach into feeling full have long been used for weight loss. The problem is that they become less effective the longer they stay inflated. Now, MIT engineers have ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new technology to help people lose weight – a balloon filled with silicone or air that gets inserted into the stomach like a ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA --Gastric balloons — silicone balloons filled with air or saline and placed in the stomach — can help people lose weight by making them feel too full to overeat. However, this effect ...

WASHINGTON, DC — An intragastric balloon system is an effective and safe addition to lifestyle interventions for promoting weight loss in obese patients, new research has demonstrated. And weight loss ...