FDA approves a device for weight loss

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 22:50 in Health & Medicine

In a bid to increase treatments for the nation's 79 million obese adults, the Food and Drug Administration has approved U.S. marketing of an implantable device that stimulates weight loss by manipulating key appetite signals passing between the brain and the gut.

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