Katie Fitzgerald, a member of the David Blight School of Dance, danced and smiled all along the parade route during the 2022 St. Patrick’s Parade in Wilkes-Barre. City officials on Friday released ...

Imagine a tiny balloon in your stomach that expands to help you feel full. Or a capsule you swallow that vibrates to tell your brain when it’s time to stop eating. MIT is breaking new ground in the ...

Engineers designed a new type of gastric balloon that can be inflated and deflated as needed. It could offer an alternative for people who don't want to undergo more invasive treatments such as ...

What is it about light, bright rubber filled with air that brings us so much joy? Balloons of all types have a nostalgic appeal that’s hard to pinpoint, but whether we’re talking round and ...

A new ingestible and inflatable balloon system seems to be a noninvasive way to fill up the stomach and curb appetite, researchers report. The balloon system, known as Obalon, helped obese people lose ...

What was it Dolly Parton said about her enhanced ladyparts? “Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills?” If Parton’s surgeon was making mountains, Nancy Davidson makes asteroids.

For nearly 30 years, Scabby the Rat, a giant inflatable balloon with sharp claws, a perpetual snarl and a menacing demeanor, has loomed over construction sites across Chicago and beyond to protest the ...