If only weight loss were as easy as swallowing a pill — and now, it might be. Doctors from Italy have developed an easy-to-swallow capsule that fills with water to create a small balloon after it ...

Gastric balloons—silicone balloons filled with air or saline and placed in the stomach—can help people lose weight by making them feel too full to overeat. However, this effect can eventually wear off ...

LOS ANGELES, CA — An experimental gastric balloon (Ellipse, Allurion Technologies) that is swallowed in a doctor's office, stays in the stomach for 4 months, and is then excreted, appears to be a safe ...

People who have been fitted with gastric balloons have been warned of 'serious complications' connected to the weight-loss procedure. The treatment, which has surged in popularity in recent years, ...

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has alerted physicians and surgeons who treat obesity that it is investigating whether there is a link between gastric balloons — a new-generation ...

Boston-based Allurion Technologies has raised $27 million in Series C funding to commercialize its intragastric balloon device. Contributors included current investor Romulus Capital, along with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LAS VEGAS — Adults with overweight or obesity who received a swallowable gastric balloon that deflates on its ...

New research on the first procedure-free gastric balloon, presented at this year's European Obesity Summit (EOS) in Gothenburg, Sweden (June 1-4) shows it is safe and results in similar weight loss to ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved another option to treat obesity: a grapefruit-size gastric balloon that takes up as much as half the volume of the stomach. Loyola Medicine's ...

Engineers designed a new type of gastric balloon that can be inflated and deflated as needed. It could offer an alternative for people who don't want to undergo more invasive treatments such as ...