New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health's Lenox Health Greenwich Village in New York City opened a $1.49 million endoscopy suite, The Villager reported July 21.
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Newark, N.J.-based Beth Israel Medical Center, part of West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health, has named Smruti Mohanty, MD, as the new division director of gastroenterology, ROI-NJ reported July 21.
A group of physicians at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine have started doing trials of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a treatment used for decompression sickness in scuba divers, to help patients with ulcerative colitis, ABC affiliate WQAD reported on July 20.
An artificial intelligence tool for smartphones can be used to gauge the quality of bowel preparation before colonoscopy, according to a study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Iowa is the least expensive state in the U.S. to undergo a colonoscopy with polyp removal, according to Sidecar Health's care calculator.
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Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has named colorectal surgeon Elizabeth Raskin, MD, as the new surgical director for the Margolis Family Inflammatory Bowel disease Program, part of the Hoag Digestive Institute.
Gastrointestinal surgeon Timothy Wang, MD, has been appointed as the inaugural member of a new medical advisory board for Mainz Biomed.
The current average base salary for gastroenterologists has decreased 1.2 percent since 2016, according to Merritt Hawkins' 2022 "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives."