The marketing firm 1-800-GET-THIN has promised to make Lap-Band surgery risks more prominent in future ads after receiving a warning letter from the FDA last week, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
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Priscilla Snodgrass, MD, is a gastroenterologist at NorthStar Surgical Center in Lubbock, Texas. She identifies seven practices that help ensure patient, staff and physician satisfaction.
Researchers found the racial disparity in colon cancer screening is higher in communities that have more physicians, according to a MedPage Today report.
The American Society of Bariatric Physicians supports the FDA's decision to issue warnings to surgery centers and 1-800-GET-THIN for misleading advertisements, according to a news release.
Bergein Overholt, MD, FACP, MACG, a physician with Gastrointestinal Associates in Knoxville, Tenn., and a leader in the ambulatory surgery center industry, is profiled in a report by Knoxville's WBIR.
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Elias Ghandour, MD, is a gastroenterologist and one of the founders of NorthStar Surgical Center in Lubbock, Texas. He shares five goals he has for his ambulatory surgery center and practice for 2012.
Karin Blumofe, MD, a physician with Minimally Invasive Surgical Associates of South Florida who practices at Healthy You Band Center, has partnered with Allergan to bring a lap-band procedure to Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Fla., according to a…
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed an endoscope capsule that is powered and propelled by a 3T MRI machine, according to news release.
CSA Medical, a Baltimore-based developer of spray devices that treat esophageal disease, has raised $20.5 million in funding, according to a Baltimore Business Journal report.
Bariatric surgery is increasingly moving into ambulatory surgery centers because of payor acceptance. Although weight-loss surgery is still unpredictable with commercial payors, the development of quality standards and the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence designation…