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Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP
Board Certified in Internal Medicine
Hoping to Avoid the Knife
Posted by on March 17, 2011
The failure of the procedure, called transoral gastroplasty, pushes back the availability of any incision-less procedure to millions of obese Americans for several years, a disappointment to companies trying to find the next best thing to major surgery. The setback also further restricts options for those who are overweight, because it is occurring on top of federal rejections of a new generation of diet pills…
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Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP 