From the mind that brought you the Segway, comes the latest in letting machines do basic bodily functions for you. A recent patent application, titled "APPARATUS FOR TREATING OBESIT BY EXTRACTING FOOD ...

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 ...

(WISH) The FDA has approved a new device for the treatment of obesity. It’s a manual pump that drains food out of your stomach. Surgeons place the “AspireAssist” device by inserting a tube in the ...

AspireBariatrics'stomach-pumping weight loss device AspireAssist, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June, has been making waves in the medical device community. Critics of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...