GI & Endoscopy

Here are 10 gastroenterologists Becker's ASC Review profiled in June:

Nezam H. Afdhal, MD, is chief of the division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at the Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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

Exact Sciences opened its 169,000-square-foot clinical laboratory and warehouse in Madison, Wis., June 26.

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

Benjamin Levy, MD, is the head of GI education at Chicago-based Mount Sinai Hospital.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System is expanding to meet patient demand, according to the Times Free Press.

A study published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology found that two-sample fecal immunochemical tests did not significantly improve detection rates over one-sample FIT.

AbbVie is acquiring competitor Allergan for $63 billion in a deal that will reverberate through the pharmacy industry.

Engineers from the University of Leeds in England developed the Sonopill, a robotic capsule device that works similar to capsule endoscopy, The New Daily reports.