When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue. Although lifesaving, the procedure—referred to as a radical small bowel ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most gastrointestinal tract surgeries performed before hospice admission were for urgent or emergent ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Updates to the 1991 NIH statement on gastrointestinal surgery for severe obesity include recommendations for ...

The use of GLP 1s increased dramatically from 2018 to 2025 among patients eligible for metabolic and bariatric surgery in the US, whereas surgery rates declined notably.

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of advanced medical devices, including tiny ...

Healthgrades has released its annual ranking of the best hospitals in the U.S. for 2024, naming the 100 best hospitals in the nation and the top hospitals across 16 different medical specialties.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX 20th District) says he's recovering from surgery to remove rare, slow-growing tumors from his gastrointestinal tract. "Today, I successfully underwent surgery to remove ...

As weight loss medications, including Ozempic and WeGovy, have gained popularity across the U.S., they are not without side effects, some serious. According to a May 2024 CNN report, as many as 1 in 8 ...

The UAB Department of Surgery is proud to announce that Daniel Chu, M.D., MSPH, FACS, FASCRS, will serve the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery as division director, effective October 1, 2023. As ...