Gina Kruse, MD, an internal medicine physician with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, authored on study that suggests current colorectal cancer screening practices may be leading to an overuse of colonoscopy.
GreeneStone Healthcare, based in Ontario, Canada, will sell its endoscopy division for C$1.25 million to Jaintheelal Parekh Medicine Professional Corporation, owned by Jay Parekh, MD.
Shivakumar Vignesh, MD, has been named the chief of the gastroenterology and hepatology division at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York.
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