You can't eat as much. Pros: The gastric balloon is an easy procedure, it is temporary, reversible, and it is less expensive than surgery. There is no cutting at all. It is inserted by endoscopy.

Research indicates gastric sleeve surgery produces average weight loss of 25 to 30% of total body weight within the first one to two years after surgery. For perspective, this represents approximately ...

Bariatric surgeries: These are operations that remove or bypass part of the stomach for the purpose of losing weight and ...

who cannot undergo surgery, or did not tolerate the medication or had some other contraindication, there are limited options [for weight loss],” said Traverso. “Traditional gastric balloons ...

the new gastric balloon could offer an alternative to existing obesity treatments. Other treatments for obesity include gastric bypass surgery, "stomach stapling" (a surgical procedure in which ...

who cannot undergo surgery or did not tolerate the [weight-loss] medication or had some other contraindication, there are limited options,” he said. “Traditional gastric balloons are still ...

Imagine a professional inflating a balloon with a small pump. No, we’re not talking about a clown at a birthday party, but engineers in a laboratory designing a medical product to treat obesity.

Dave Pulford from Yeovil, Somerset, underwent a procedure in which he swallowed a balloon to help him lose weight ahead of gastric bypass surgery. Mr Pulford, who is one of the first NHS patients to ...

An Essex man who was desperate to lose weight says he regrets paying £2k for gastric balloon surgery in Turkey as it left him "throwing up daily for the next year". Luke Hughes, 30, from Clacton ...