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Controlling reflux with magnets

The Linx is a medical device that looks like a small bracelet with magnetic-core titanium beads. The Linx is placed surgically around a patient's lower esophagus. The magnetic ring is designed to open up to make way for food and burps, but stay closed at other times to prevent stomach acid from entering the esophagus.

By Raymond Grumney

May 15, 2015 at 9:12PM
(Raymond Grumney/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(Raymond Grumney/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Ray Grumney is the news graphics director at the Star Tribune, with a proven 30-year award-winning track record. He is a driven visual journalist focused on developing and implementing high-impact design solutions to sometimes complicated data-driven stories.

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