GI & Endoscopy

Kaiser Permanente San Diego will donate 22 GI procedures, including colonoscopies and sigmoidoscopies, to uninsured patients in need of outpatient procedures through Project Access San Diego on March 26.

Prabhakar Swaroop, MD, has been named director of the new Crohn's and Colitis program at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, according to a university release.

Thomas Jefferson University has started recruiting patients for a new National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trial to test whether the cholesterol-reducing drug rosuvastatin is effective in the prevention of recurrent colon cancer, according to a university news release.

Results from a study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology suggest there may be potential legal ramifications for physicians of cirrhosis patients who drive with cognitive impairment, according to a news release from the American Gastroenterological Association.

Study results suggest an EUS fine-needle biopsy device with a new 19-gauge histology needle can be used for histopathology diagnosis of intestinal mass lesion, according to a study published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Research findings suggest split-dose oral mannitol plus single-dose simethicone provides better small bowel preparation before capsule endoscopy than other bowel preparations, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology.

The Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates is celebrating GI Nurses and Associates Day on Wednesday, March 23, according to the SGNA website.

Despite the common belief that invasive cancer is predominant among patients with large colorectal polyps, results from a new study show the rate of invasive cancer is low among endoscopically resected large colorectal polyps, according to a study published in…

Quincy (Mass.) Medical Center has been tapped to conduct a new clinical trial that would assess the efficacy of a GI device aimed at detecting more abnormalities during colonoscopy, according to a Boston Globe news report.

Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine found colorectal cancer cells trigger a set of genes similar to those found in intestinal stem cells, according to an institute news release.