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.
GI & Endoscopy
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.
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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.
Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., has announced pediatric gastroenterologist Laurie Conklin, MD, has been appointed to the faculty of the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, according to a news release.
Flexible scopes traveling outside the ASC do not always receive proper cleaning following a procedure, according to Cyngus Medical Product and Services.
Vincent Jabour, MD, a gastroenterologist at Wooster (Ohio) Ambulatory Surgery Center, recently provided Congressman Jim Renacci (R-Ohio) with a tour of the ASC, according to a Daily Record report.
University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile has appointed pediatric gastroenterologist David Gremse, MD, professor and chair of pediatrics, according to a news release.