GI & Endoscopy

Molly C. Dienhart, MD, is co-director of the intestinal support service at Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Bausch Health, formerly known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals, reduced its debt further, paying down an additional $100 million in senior secured term loans through cash flow.

Exact Sciences will acquire diagnostic testing company Genomic Health in a $72 per share, $2.8 billion dollar deal, creating a globally focused cancer diagnostics company in the process.

  The American Gastroenterological Association recognized the research work of the following 17 fellows:

A study published in American Health Drug Benefits suggested that blood and stool-based screening tests could prompt more people to get screened for colorectal cancer.

The International Association of Top Professionals named David Bass, MD, its Doctor of the Decade and awarded him the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Rohit Kohli, MBBS, is the chief of the division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Here are five of the most read gastroenterology articles on Becker's ASC Review this week:

Evanston-based Illinois Gastroenterology Group closed a private equity deal joining the GI Alliance, which created the largest independent gastroenterology services organization in the nation.

Renowned gastroenterologist and former Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center director Kurt Isselbacher, MD, died of a stroke July 18 at age 93, the Boston Globe reports.