The latest one involves putting castor oil in your belly button, also known as naval pulling. The fad is making its rounds on ...

However, sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass did not significantly differ in terms of mean percentage total weight loss ...

In today’s Novant Healthy Headlines, Ramona Holloway chats with Dr. Thomas Gavigan, a surgeon with Novant Health Carolina Surgical, who tell us more about bariatric surgery, and about how it could be ...

Gastric bacteria, which leaks around the stomach lining, plays a significant role in the onset of stomach cancer -- which has limited treatment options and poor survival rates, according to a study on ...

Patients with metastatic or unresectable gastric cancer are usually given 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and platinum-based chemotherapy, but patients with advance disease usually have a poor prognosis. The ...

H. Ma and S. Srivastava are joint first authors of this article. R. Sundar and P. Tan are joint corresponding and senior authors of this article.

The keto diet is a potentially helpful way for people with diabetes to manage blood sugar levels. This diet greatly restricts carbohydrates, which impact blood sugar. It may also aid in the reversal ...

The eldest son of Elizabeth and John Dickens was born in February 1812 on Portsea Island in the British city of Portsmouth, and moved around with his family in his younger years to Yorkshire and ...

This can result in diabetic gastroparesis, a condition wherein the stomach takes longer to empty its contents. Delayed gastric emptying can cause food to remain in the stomach for longer than usual, ...

Recovery from your gastric bypass surgery takes about three to six weeks. That said, your "real" recovery lasts a lifetime. This is because right after surgery you must adopt strict eating and ...

It also studies the dual gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor–GLP-1 RAs labeled for both obesity and T2D (liraglutide, semaglutide, and tirzepatide). The heterogeneity among individuals with ...