Santiam Hospital in Stayton, Ore., recently opened its new 50,000-square-foot four-story patient tower that includes an endoscopy center, according to a Statesman Journal report.
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Luminex has produced and received FDA approval to market their xTAG Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel that can detect 11 causes of gastroenteritis from a single patient sample.
Perelman School of Medicine conducted a study of endoluminal therapy, an endoscopy-based treatment, on patients with Barrett's esophagus or in the early stages of cancer and found that neoplasia was eliminated in 95 percent of patients, according to a Gastrointestinal…
The LINX magnetic device, a series of titanium beads with magnetic cores linked together in a ring and placed in the lower esophageal sphincter, is designed to control a weak sphincter, the main cause of gastroesophageal reflux disease, according to…
The four-day International Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy Conference held in Lahore, Pakistan drew to a close on Sunday, according to a Business Recorder report.
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Miraca Life Sciences will donate $100,000 over the course of five years to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Foundation's Institute for Training & Technology campaign, according to an EndoNurse report.
Edward Hospital & Health Services endoscopy lab in Naperville, Ill., received a $600,000 donation from the Edward Foundation, the hospital's fundraising organization, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
UTMB will break ground on the $90 million Victory Lakes Specialty Care Center on February 25 in League City, Texas, according to a Houston Business Journal report.
International research team led by Ulrike Peters, PhD, MPH, and biostatistician Hsu Li, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center discovered mutations in the NABP, LAMC1, CCND2 and TBX3 genes that increase the risk of colorectal cancer.