Westborough, Mass.-based Viking Systems' 3DHD prototype visualization system, displayed on a Sony prototype medical grade 3DHD monitor, was demonstrated for attendees of the 12th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held in National Harbor, Md., last week, according to a Viking…
GI & Endoscopy
Jackie Harrison is vice president of operations for Practice Partners in Healthcare, which is part of the joint venture, along with local physicians and Tenet Healthcare Corp., that operates Alabama Digestive Health Endoscopy Center in Birmingham, Ala.
Bernard McDonnell, DO, a retired physician and current surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, says that while a vast majority of the GI facilities he surveys do a good job of adhering to standards that protect patient safety, the routine…
Here are the median gross charges and net revenue per GI/endoscopy case by region, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
Ethicon Endo-Surgery has introduced a new Echelon Flex 45 Endopath Stapler, intended to provide surgeons with improved access and compression when deploying a 45-mm staple line, the most utilized endocutter length in the United States for laparoscopic surgery, according to…
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More than 75 percent of primary care physicians in the United States who order or perform the fecal occult blood test as a screening option for colorectal cancer perform an in-office test rather than relying on the home-based test, even…
A study lead by researchers from Mayo Clinic suggests remission from Crohn's disease may be more likely if patients receive biologic therapy combined with immune-suppressing drugs first instead of immune-suppressing drugs alone, according to a Mayo news release.
Edward Frech, MD, and Michael Sossenheimer, MD, of Mountain West Gastroenterology and Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City fielded questions on colonoscopy and colon cancer as part of a hotline on April 10, according to a report in the…
A team from Juntendo University Nerima Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, used a modified endoscopic submucosal dissection technique to remove a large ileal lipoma from a 62 year-old man, according to an article published in the April 7 issue of the…
Over-the-scope-clips, initially designed for hemostatis of gastrointestinal bleeding, may be the least invasive method to close chronic small fistulas, according to a study in the April 7, 2010, issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology.