For nearly the past 50 years, primary treatment for acid reflux in the United States has included medications meant to dilute acid that regurgitates from the stomach, as well as a risky procedure that ...

Atif Iqbal, MD, medical director of the MemorialCare Digestive Care Center at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley, Calif., describes his experience using the LINX Reflux Management ...

For 10 years, 54-year-old Tricia Carr couldn't stomach a typical American breakfast. Her acid reflux was getting worse. Since medications didn't work for her, she decided to try a minimally invasive ...

The paperwork stacks up slowly but steadily. Some months, the pile of appeals from insurance companies denying coverage of a medical implant for severe acid reflux is more than a foot high in ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Torax Medical, Inc. is pleased to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a next generation LINX® Reflux Management System that is MR ...

A very common ailment normally treated with medications now has a new device that could eliminate the need for drugs. GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease, affects up to 1 in 5 people in the U.S. ...

Most patients who undergo LINX® placement can go home from the hospital the same day, while some stay one night in the hospital. Once you are awake after surgery, you can begin to eat a regular diet.

The FDA’s Gastroenterology-Urology Devices Panel voted unanimously that LINX’s Reflux Management System, a laparoscopically implanted device designed to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease, has a ...

For 10 years, 54-year-old Tricia Carr couldn't stomach a typical American breakfast. Her acid reflux was getting worse. Since medications didn't work for her, she decided to try a minimally invasive ...