GI & Endoscopy

Todos Medical wants to follow in the competition's footsteps in developing and promoting its blood-based colorectal cancer test, CEO Herman Weiss, MD, said in an update on the state of the company at a conference in Los Angeles.

At the halfway point of the year, private equity investment is still making inroads into gastroenterology. But summer is heating up and with it could come a swell of investment, if momentum continues as planned.

The FDA issued a warning after a patient died after undergoing a fecal microbiota transplant procedure.

Here are 12 GI-focused ASCs opened or announced in the first half of the year:

Edward Lebovics, MD, is the chief of the gastroenterology and hepatobiliary disease division at the Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center.

Here are five of the top-read stories on Becker's ASC Review this week:

Kenneth Forde, MD, 85, died of heart failure at his home in Scarborough, N.Y., June 2, the New York Times reports.

Appalachian Regional Healthcare is moving ahead with an $80,410 acquisition and an ambulatory healthcare facility development after receiving approval from the West Virginia Health Care Authority.

Ivor Hill, MD, is section chief of gastroenterology at Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Here are four updates from gastroenterology companies from the past week: