DaButt
Wednesday 9th March 2011 7:04pm
14,722 posts
This is interesting. I'd be interested in hearing what bigfella thinks about it.
An implant intended as a less drastic alternative to stomach stapling or stomach bypass surgery for the morbidly obese is now being sold in Europe. The device senses when a person is eating and generates a premature sensation of fullness by stimulating nerves that curl around the stomach.
The implant, developed by Intrapace, a company based in Mountain View California, is available in Germany, Spain, and the U.K.; the first implantations are scheduled to be carried out later this week. In trials involving 65 patients, the company says, the device led to an average weight loss of 22 percent after one year, with some patients losing as much as 38 percent of their body weight. These results have not yet been published.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/35067/?p1=A2&a=f