Olive Medical has introduced their HD rigid endoscope and scope repair business to complement their HD visualization camera.
GI & Endoscopy
The Utah Medical Education Council has identified gastroenterology as one of several specialties appearing to be in severe need in a new report analyzing the supply and distribution of physicians in Utah.
Via Surgical, an Israel-based developer of hernia mesh fixation technologies, has announced the appointment of David B. Earle MD, FACS, as a medical advisor, according to a news release.
The American Gastroenterological Association has announced its Institute's Procedural Sedation/Patient Safety Practice Improvement Module has received approval from the American Board of Internal Medicine to be part of ABIM's Approved Quality Improvement Pathway, according to a news release.
Market forces in healthcare, such as managed care programs and hospital competition increase the likelihood patients will undergo laparoscopic surgery to treat colon cancer, according to researchers from George Washington University and Case Western University.
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Unsedated transnasal endoscopy may be a feasible, safe and well-tolerated method to screen for esophageal disease in a primary care population, according to an American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy release.
Mission Health System, based in Asheville, N.C., has submitted a certificate of need seeking to add a GI endoscopy room to a proposed facility in Fletcher, N.C., according to a BlueRidgeNow.com report.
Members of the American Gastroenterological Association provided nearly 300 free colonoscopies during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which takes place in March, according to a news release.
The Gastroenterology Center of Thousand Oaks (Calif.) has announced the launch of its first website after 30 years in business, according to a news release.
Moiz Karu, MD, who specializes in gastroenterology and internal medicine, will be moving his New Jersey practice from Middlesex into a new medical building in Dunellen, according to a MyCentralJersey.com report.