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An inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight

Gastric balloons — silicone balloons filled with air or saline and placed in the stomach — can help people lose weight by making them feel too full to overeat. However, this effect eventually can wear...

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From refugee to MIT graduate student

Mlen-Too Wesley has faded memories of his early childhood in Liberia, but the sharpest one has shaped his life.Wesley was 4 years old when he and his family boarded a military airplane to flee the West...

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