Author: Francesca Mathewes

Two reviews of recent trials for drugs used to treat inflammatory bowel disease found that patients who received a placebo were at "significantly higher risk" for potential harms, MedPage Today reported Sept. 26. 

The Elk Grove (Calif.) Planning Commission has given initial approval for Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health to construct a new medical office building, Elk Grove Citizen reported Oct. 24.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health entered the South Carolina market earlier this year with a $2.4 million acquisition of three hospitals and their affiliated physician clinics, previously owned by Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare.

Oklahoma City-based law firm Federman & Sherwood is investigating the Chicago Cardiology Institute due to a data breach. 

Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care has established McLaren Heart & Vascular Institute and has appointed a chief medical director, Schwartz Creek Review reported Oct. 24. 

Escondido, Calif.-based Veni-Express, a mobile phlebotomy lab, and its owners have agreed to pay at least $135,000 to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims for mobile phlebotomy services and related travel mileage.

A physician in Tipton, Iowa, was found liable for a LeClaire, Iowa, man's death after being sued by the man's daughter, CBS2 Iowa reported Oct. 23.

A Dallas pharmacy owner was sentenced to prison for billing insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams and scar creams that were never given to patients.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based medical group General Physician, PC, filed a notice of data breach with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to an Oct. 23 report published by JDSupra. 

Between new guidelines for colonoscopies to technological innovations, the gastroenterology and endoscopy space has been busy.