GI & Endoscopy

Here are 10 updates from gastroenterology companies and practices from the past week:

Bradenton-based Florida Digestive Health Specialists recently opened a new location in Brandon, Fla., the Osprey Observer reports.

Exact Sciences and Pfizer will extend and amend an agreement to promote Exact's non-invasive stool and DNA colorectal cancer screening test Cologuard, Exact announced Oct. 7.

Rockford, Ill.-based Mercyhealth's Javon Bea Hospital in Rockton, Ill., opened the Rockton Campus Endoscopy Center Oct. 5, local news affiliate WIFR reports.

Following the FDA's labeling change, Miami-based Gastro Health now offers patients access to CapsoCam Plus treatments at home.

Burlington, Mass.-based medical technology company Laborie Medical Technologies partnered with investment firm Signet Healthcare Partners to close an acquisition deal with GI Supply, according to an Oct. 1 statement.

Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health is a major tenant of a 40,218-square-foot office building in South Jersey sold for $4.5 million, according to an Oct. 2 report from the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Miami-based Gastro Health partnered with Cincinnati-based Ohio Gastroenterology & Liver Institute and Woodbridge, Va.-based Associates in Gastroenterology in two separate deals, the platform announced Oct. 1.

Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital is investing $7.5 million into a new medical center development in Amherst, Ohio, The Chronicle reports.

COVID-19 severely affected colonoscopies because of the high risk of transmission, but Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network said screening numbers were beginning to rebound, the Observer-Reporter reports.