Christopher Joyce, MD, and Brian Lahmann, MD, of Joliet, Ill., performed their 1,000th gastric band surgery this month at Silver Cross Hospital, placing them among the top 1 percent of surgeons performing this procedure, according to a report in The…
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The American College of Gastroenterology has announced its support of World IBD Day and World Digestive Health Day, global awareness efforts that are bringing physician and patient groups together to raise awareness for inflammatory bowel disease by making the latest…
Loyola University surgeon P. Marco Fisichella, MD, is performing laparoscopic hernia surgery at the Maywood, Ill.-based facility, which has helped patients recover quicker and with less pain than traditional methods, according to a Loyola news release.
A new study from the Carolinas Laparoscopic and Advanced Surgery Program at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., found that performance of advanced laparoscopic procedures in a minimally invasive surgery program is safe, regardless of whether the surgery is performed…
A team of researchers at Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases in Japan found that using a flushknife, an endoscopic device with a water jet function, was superior to a flexknife, an electrosurgical endo-knife without a water-jet function,…
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., are testing the next generation of "virtual biopsy" colonoscopy probes and are determining if it might soon be possible to use such a device to determine whether a colon polyp is benign…
Several studies presented at Digestive Disease Week examined the adherence to colorectal cancer screening, including colonoscopy and fecal occult blood testing, by ethnicity and recommended screening strategy, according to a DDW news release.
Several studies presented at Digestive Disease Week supported using PillCam technology more frequently and earlier in the diagnostic algorithm in a range of disease states, including anemia, confirmed or clinically suspected Crohn's disease, upper gastrointestinal bleeding and occult or obscure…
gMED, a market leader in electronic health records, has agreed to configure its EHR solutions to enable seamless data transmission to the AGA Digestive Health Outcomes Registry, according to a news release from the American Gastroenterological Association.
Although colonoscopy is stressed as the preferred screening test for colorectal cancer, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco found that recommending colonoscopy resulted in lower adherence compared with fecal occult blood test or a choice of the two…