GI & Endoscopy

Fifty-two projects received a total of more than $3 million in funding courtesy of the American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation.

Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital opened its 37,000-square-foot outpatient clinical center at its hospital in Needham, Mass., Wicked Local reports.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia plans to build a 37,000-square-foot multispecialty clinic in Abington, Pa., the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.

Physicians should follow hereditary colorectal cancer guidelines to prevent early-onset CRC in at-risk patients, according to research from the Ohio Colorectal Cancer Prevention Initiative, CURE reports.

Five new technologies were presented at the 2019 American Gastroenterological Association Tech Summit, including apps, blood-based tests and more.

Ali T. Nawras, MD, is chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Toledo (Ohio).

A late-stage study for Gilead Science's drug to treat fibrosis symptoms associated with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis didn't meet its goal of treating disease symptoms last week.

Fasiha Kanwal, MD, is the gastroenterology and hepatology section chief at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine.

Here are three GI physicians Becker's ASC Review featured in the last week:

While three private equity firms have invested in gastroenterology to date, several analysts believe more deals are on the way in 2019.