Lipid Therapeutics has successfully filed for a U.S. IND for LT-02, the company's leading product.
GI & Endoscopy
Olympus, a medical and surgical products company, has announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Articulating HD 3D Laparoscopic Surgical Video System, which is designed to improve accuracy by providing surgeons natural three-dimensional vision while performing laparoscopic…
The American Cancer Society has awarded Stephen J. Meltzer, MD, an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship for his research on Barrett's Esophagus, according to a News Medical report.
ResearchMoz, a market research and analysis company, has announced the release of an endoscopy market outlook report titled "United States Endoscopy Devices Market Outlook to 2019 – Capsule Endoscope Systems, Endoscopic Instruments, Flexible Endoscopes, Rigid Endoscopes and Others."
The Food and Drug Administration granted eight GI-related 510(k) clearances in March.
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Essentia Health, based in Duluth, Minn., has announced an $80 million expansion project of three medical facilities in Fargo, N.D., which will include the addition of space for endoscopy services at its Essentia Health-Fargo campus.
Despite the lack of reimbursement, virtual colonoscopies could be a beneficial option alongside the regularly offered optical colonoscopy, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Six experts share points on improving infection control processes in gastroenterological-driven ambulatory surgery centers.
Researchers have developed a pill-sized, optomechanical endomicroscopy capsule that once swallowed by a patient provides microstructural, three-dimensional images of the upper GI tract, according to a Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News report.
Waverly (Iowa) Health Center has recently acquired the video endoscopy system EVIS EXERA III, according to a KWWL report.