Now the new cutting edge procedure that could become a major weapon in the obesity epidemic. Doctors say it involves tricking your stomach into feeling full so of course you eat less. It is much less invasive and safer than gastric bypass surgery, but will it work for everyone, and is it for everyone?...
On a slick Web page, a hale, gray-haired man held a little girl's hand in a lush green field. "Adult Stem Cell Therapy. New Hope. New Life," the page beckoned, encouraging heart patients to plunk down $35,000 to travel to Bangkok, Thailand—for an unproven treatment....
A formerly controversial high-fat diet has proved highly effective in reducing seizures in children whose epilepsy does not respond to medication, British researchers are reporting....
Insulin pumps are used by tens of thousands of teenagers worldwide with Type 1 diabetes, but they can be risky and have been linked to injuries and even deaths, a review by federal regulators finds. ...
Medical-device makers, venture capitalists and surgeons are racing to turn a once-controversial weight-loss procedure into the next big thing in elective surgery.
For the first time, independent analyses performed at the request of USA TODAY suggest the meteoric rise of angioplasty during the past three decades has ended....
