Balloon therapy is a non-surgical method of weight loss. Balloons are being used for more than two decades and are an important tool that can help patients to lose weight. Balloon therapy or ...

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 ...

A gastric balloon is a temporary weight-loss device that goes inside your stomach. It takes up room in your stomach, so you feel full sooner and eat less. You don’t need surgery to get a gastric ...

If weight loss with drugs that must be self-injected weekly doesn’t sound appealing — think Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound — there may be an intriguing new option available down the road. It's “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 ...

A sedentary lifestyle is a major factor that affects your metabolism. A slower metabolism equates to fewer calories being burnt by the body and, hence, contributing to food being stored in the form of ...

A new ingestible and inflatable balloon system seems to be a noninvasive way to fill up the stomach and curb appetite, researchers report. The balloon system, known as Obalon, helped obese people lose ...

WASHINGTON -- 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 ...

If you're struggling to lose a serious amount of weight, imagine you had a weight loss option that helped more than diet and exercise, but wasn't as invasive as gastric surgery. Enter the Obalon ...

The weight loss balloon (also called the intragastric balloon) is a simple, non-surgical outpatient procedure. Gastric balloons are an option for people who need to lose weight but do not qualify for ...

Late last year, Kayleigh Fellows tipped the scales at 19st. At 5ft 6in, with a body mass index (BMI) of 42 (severely obese), she realised it was time for something more drastic than another diet. ‘I’d ...