Williamsville, N.Y.-based Gastroenterology Associates opened a location in Orchard Park, N.Y., complementing the group’s New York offices in Amherst and Wheatfield.
Colorado could soon require insurers to cover colorectal cancer screening costs beginning at age 45 instead of 50 if the Colorado Cancer Coalition and the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network are successful in their lobbying. Read more.
Boston Scientific is expanding out of America and taking its single-use duodenoscope to Europe after the company received a CE mark for the device.
Grand Junction (Colo.) Gastroenterology opened a clinic for patients with liver disease.
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals and Allergan reached a settlement with Teva over Teva’s abbreviated new drug application for a generic version of Linzess, a drug for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation.
American Gastroenterological Association-affiliated researchers published a new clinical guideline on ulcerative colitis with 15 recommendations for treating the disease.
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