{"id":697852,"date":"2026-05-27T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697852\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:37:12","slug":"non-surgical-weight-loss-procedure-available-at-edmontons-royal-alexandra-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697852\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-surgical weight loss procedure available at Edmonton&#8217;s Royal Alexandra Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EDMONTON \u2014 Albertans dealing with obesity can now access a new, publicly paid-for procedure that would see their stomach stitched up from the inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s called endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, and Edmonton\u2019s Royal Alexandra Hospital is the first one in Canada to offer it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s a 90-minute procedure where a thin flexible tube with a camera is pushed down the patient&#8217;s throat and into the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tiny tools are then used inside the tube to stitch up the stomach to reduce its size.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surgeon Dr. Noah Switzer says patients can often go home the same day and that the procedure can be used alongside weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So far 10 patients have received the treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Daniela Germano, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Albertans dealing with obesity can now access a new, publicly paid-for procedure that would see their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,254413,254412,254411,152344,78307],"class_list":["post-697852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-endoscopic-sleeve-gastroplasty","tag-flexible-tube","tag-noah-switzer","tag-royal-alexandra-hospital","tag-weight-loss-medications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}