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Let’s do it again.EnteroMedics Inc., based in Roseville, Minnesota, said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new clinical trial for its Maestro anti-obesity device that uses electricity to suppress hunger.The news represents a major victory for EnteroMedics whose previous study ended in failure. Last October, initial results from the EMPOWER studies [...]

Someday, in the not-so-distant future, EnteroMedics Inc. officials might look back at late 2009 and laugh. Or cry.That ultimately depends on whether the Food and Drug Administration ultimately approves or rejects the company’s groundbreaking Maestro device. Approval means enormous financial success, the only implantable neurostimulation device in the United States designed to treat obesity. Rejection [...]

EnteroMedics and Leptos are both developing a device that uses electricity to treat obesity. But that’s where the similarities end, EnteroMedics CEO Mark Knudson told me in a quick phone call.

EnteroMedics is dangling precariously off a cliff. Last fall, initial results from its Empower clinical study failed to meet the company’s goals.