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Hormone therapy mimics stomach stapling (Johns Hopkins News-Letter)

Scientists at the Hopkins Medical School are one step closer to finding a less invasive alternative to bariatric surgery. Earlier this month, Aravind Arepally and his colleagues successfully suppressed the production of the hunger-inducing hormone, ghrelin, in pigs by damaging the main vessel that carries blood to the top of the stomach, where ghrelin is produced.

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