By contrast, about 5 percent of patients who had stomach-banding obesity surgery drank excessively two years later, similar to the pre-surgery numbers. Stomach banding is a reversible procedure in which an adjustable band is placed around the stomach to decrease the amount of food it can hold....
preclinical, and clinical). As discussed by Ioannidis [8] there has to be some new business model for funding mechanisms. He suggests that while discovery-based long-term research with high uncertainty and very high failure rate could be funded by NIH, DOD and other public funding ...