A new procedure may means less pain and a quicker recovery for hemorrhoid sufferers. Hemorrhoids are a cluster of veins that can swell due to constipation or pregnancy. Darla Fisher said she first ...

Doctors are testing a new kind of obesity surgery without any cuts through the abdomen, snaking a tube as thick as a garden hose down the throat to snap staples into the stomach. The experimental, ...

Kirk Thompson, 41, had lost 400 pounds in the two years since his gastric bypass, or "stomach stapling," operation at Ohio State University Medical Center in October 2001. Down from a peak weight of ...

Stapling was introduced in the late 1990s, and in some small studies was shown to be less painful and faster to heal than conventional surgery. A few short-term studies -- with less than a year of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While a "stapling" operation for severe hemorrhoids may be less painful and easier to recover from than actual surgical removal, which has been considered the "gold ...

LOS ANGELES -- An 820-pound man who arrived at a Los Angeles-area hospital in a rented panel truck -- the only vehicle that could accommodate his girth -- said he was doing well Friday after surgeons ...

"My knees are bothering me my hip is bothering me, and I like to be active but I'm finding my activity is slowed down by my weight," says Carol McLaughlin, a weight loss patient. McLaughlin is now ...