Pop singer Lance Bass has joined a long list of celebrities encouraging patients to get screened for colon cancer. On April 24, the former NSYNC member posted to his Instagram story a photo in his hospital gown with the caption,…
GI & Endoscopy
The National Institutes of Health has withdrawn renewal grant applications for the Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers. Patient advocacy organizations, including the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, have called on Congress and the Rare Disease Congressional Caucus…
Chicago-based GI Partners of Illinois has announced a partnership with Acucare, an AI-driven technology platform that transforms EHR data to actionable insights, according to an April 22 news release from the organization. With this new partnership, GI Partners of Illinois…
Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Chan Medical School has become the first medical center to complete a procedure using the WallFlex Biliary PLUS RX Fully Covered Stent. The procedure was performed by assistant professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology at…
A Bakersfield, Calif.-based gastroenterologist has been placed on five years of probation for mistakenly administering treatment intended for another patient to a 67-year-old COVID-19 patient, resulting in the patient’s death, Fox 8 News reported April 17. What happened? What’s next?
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GI Alliance has struck a strategic partnership with healthcare technology company Iterative Health. The partnership aims to expand access to clinical trials for GI patients, according to an April 23 press release. It will open up GI Alliance’s clinical research…
The American Gastroenterological Association has awarded $2.4 million in research grants to 74 recipients. In addition, the AGA is awarding 10 pilot grants totaling $400,000 for 2026, according to an April 22 news release. The grants were awarded through the…
1. Hafiz Khan, MD, is serving as medical director of AdvantHealth Tampa’s (Fla.) Center for Interventional Endoscopy, the only interventional endoscopy center in the Tampa Bay region. 2. The American Gastroenterological Association elected Richard Peek, MD, as vice president in…
Pinnacle Gastroenterology is expected to open a multi-physician gastroenterology practice in a building that housed the now-shuttered Arkansas Diagnostic Center of Little Rock, Arkansas Business reported April 21. The new clinic is unaffiliated with the gastroenterologist who operated the Diagnostic…
Former Nashville-based Vanderbilt University gastroenterologist Terrence Allen Smith, MD, died at VUMC on April 7 following a bicycle accident, according to an April 18 report from the Williamson Herald. Dr. Smith, 68, was a resident of Brentwood, Tenn., and a…