There's good news and bad news in the fight against morbid obesity. The good news is that there is a new approach to surgical weight-loss which is far less invasive than conventional operations. The ...

Yesterday, the FDA approved a device called AspireAssist, which helps obese people control weight loss and calorie intake by pumping half-digested food out of their stomach. Getting it only requires a ...

The AspireAssist device (Aspiration Bariatrics, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and Mina Medial, Sweden), with which obese patients pump out a third of the contents of their stomach after eating their ...

The company Aspire Bariatrics has developed a new device meant to aid those struggling with obesity: a personal stomach pump designed to suck food straight out of a person’s stomach. Twenty minutes ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved a new line of treatment for obese patients who struggle with the conventional non-surgerical weight-loss therapy. The newly approved device, named ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved AspireAssist, a device that takes a new approach to weight loss: removing food from your stomach via a pump before it is fully digested. Dr. Louis ...

You’ve probably heard of someone having to get their “stomach pumped,” especially if you’ve been of drinking age for a few decades now. It has historically been used as a threat to discourage ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new and unusual weight loss device Tuesday: an external pump that dumps part of the stomach contents into the toilet. Some critics have called it “assisted ...