Scott Hallgren, DO, board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology, will be opening Northwest Gastroenterology Specialists at the Avista Adventist Hospital's Louisville campus next month, according to Boulder County Business Report.
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Aging But Dangerous, an online company targeting women, is hosting a colonoscopy sleepover party, directed at driving up rates of colorectal cancer screening among women, according to a company news release.
Contrary to popular belief, chronic pancreatitis caused by alcohol consumption occurs at much lower rates compared to other causes, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Three ASC administrators offer advice on cutting costs and increasing profits on gastroenterology in an ambulatory surgery center.
Between healthcare reform, increased enforcement under the Anti-Kickback Statute, less patience on the part of physician leaders for underperforming ambulatory surgery centers, reduced reimbursement from Medicare, increased interest in pathology and anesthesiology relationships, and increased pressure from payors on out-of-network…
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The development of new microcameras may lead to disposable endoscopes, according to a news release from Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) in Berlin, Germany, which has developed the devices with Awaiba GmbH.
The American Gastroenterological Association believes that all individuals should have access to the colorectal cancer screening option that works best for them, as decided by the patient and their physician, and advocates that patients should have access to colonoscopies through…
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the PillCam SB video capsule, including clearance to promote its use in monitoring lesions that may indicate Crohn's disease, according to a Given Imaging news release.
The reduced risk of colorectal cancer associated with taking aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may be limited to individuals already at risk due to elevations in a particular inflammatory factor in the blood, according to a news release by…
Researchers caution GI physicians when using Medicare claims data for important quality measures, in particular tumor detection and incomplete colonoscopy, as research results showed Medicare claims have low sensitivity for those diagnoses, according to a study published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.