Vagotomy is a surgery where part of your vagus nerve is removed. Until antacid medications and stomach bacteria treatments came along, this was one of the main treatments for peptic ulcer disease. The ...

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BERLIN — Truncal vagotomy is associated with a reduced risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD) at more than 5 years after the procedure, a study reports. The finding supports the hypothesis that ...

AT LEAST fifty surgical procedures have been employed in the cure of chronic peptic ulcer since Doyen 1 first suggested gastroenterostomy, nearly all of which have been based on arrest or ...

MANY surgeons have come to consider subtotal gastrectomy the procedure of choice for duodenal ulcers demanding elective operative therapy. The results of this maneuver are gratifying in most cases.

Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve, according to a study. The vagus nerve extends from the brainstem to the abdomen and controls unconscious body ...

Weight loss surgery works, but is so invasive and has such unpleasant long-term side effects that it’s recommended for only a fraction of the obese population, and even many in that group are ...

," you mentioned how surgeons realized cutting the vagus nerve curbed a person's appetite. Why isn't vagotomy surgery an option for weight loss? A: It might be, but it's still experimental. In the ...

According to medical statistics, some 12 million Americans have, or have had, ulcers of the stomach or duodenum. Every day, ulcers claim 4,000 new victims; every year, surgeons put about 150,000 ulcer ...

Further evidence supporting the idea that Parkinson's disease (PD) may start in the peripheral nerves in the gut and spread to the central nervous system through the vagus nerve via prion-like ...