A new procedure may means less pain and a quicker recovery for hemorrhoid sufferers. Hemorrhoids are a cluster of veins that can swell due to constipation or pregnancy. Darla Fisher said she first ...

Oct. 20, 2005 (San Francisco) — Stapled hemorrhoidopexy results in significantly less pain and similar clinical outcomes as standard hemorrhoidectomy, according to 14-month follow-up data from a ...

Stapling was introduced in the late 1990s, and in some small studies was shown to be less painful and faster to heal than conventional surgery. A few short-term studies -- with less than a year of ...

Doctors are testing a new kind of obesity surgery without any cuts through the abdomen, snaking a tube as thick as a garden hose down the throat to snap staples into the stomach. The experimental, ...

Pharyngeal pouch, which is also known as Zenker's diverticulum, occurs when a piece of the pharyngeal lining herniates through the muscles of the pharyngeal wall. It occurs mainly in older people, ...

Stapling of hemorrhoids -- a relatively new and increasingly popular procedure -- is associated with a higher risk of recurrence and prolapse than conventional hemorrhoid removal surgery, ...