GI & Endoscopy

Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Fla., has announced it is now offering Barrett's esophagus, according to a news release.

Medscape has published the "Medscape Physician Compensation Report: 2012 Results." The report included data gathered in February from more than 24,000 physicians in the United States across 25 specialties. Of these respondents, 2 percent were in gastroenterology.

Son Nguyen, MD, a gastroenterology fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans, is working to bring awareness of the Hepatitis B virus to the local Vietnamese community, according to a WDSU report.

A new study published in Cancer indicates people of higher socioeconomic status typically choose endoscopic colorectal cancer screening over home-based fecal occult blood test, according to the abstract of the study and Reuters report.

Gastroenterologist Jerome Craig Cohen, MD, has been re-elected speaker of the Medical Society of the State of New York, according to a news release.

EndoChoice has been awarded an endoscope repair contracting with HealthTrust Purchasing Group, according to a release.

The amount of bariatric surgery performed in the U.S. has plateaued in recent years, due to factors such as the recession, according to an American Medical News report.

The First Step Flexible Endoscope Bedside Pre-Clean Kit from Cygnus Medical enables GI surgery centers to removing visible bioburden after a procedure — an essential first step in the reprocessing of a flexible endoscope. The First Step Kit has simplified…

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have published new researching findings that identify a possible new cancer treatment, according to a news release.

Banner Medical Group in Phoenix has named gastroenterologist G. Anton Decker, MBBCh, as its chief medical officer, according to a news release.