GI & Endoscopy

Boston-based Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center opened the Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center in response to elevated CRC rates in young adults.

Here are the five most-read gastroenterology articles on Becker's ASC Review for the week of Feb. 28 through March 6.

Theodore A DeCosta, MD, recently opened The Gastro Center in West Orange, N.J.

Zachary, La.-based Lane Gastroenterology is providing its patients free colorectal cancer diagnostic tests in recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, The Advocate reports.

A Boston-based firm is developing an artificial intelligence algorithm that can detect missed cases of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News reports.

Here are four updates on gastroenterology and industry-relevant companies to note from the past week:

Valeria Cohran, MD, is the intestinal rehabilitation and transplantation director at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Despite guidelines to begin colorectal cancer screening at 45, newly released data said Americans put off their initial screening until 58.

Gastroenterologist Vaibhav Wadhwa, MD, met with an associate of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,D-Fla., to discuss step therapy reform.

Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Medical Center colorectal surgeon Charles Friel, MD, dressed up as a red colon polyp to educate staff and patients about colon cancer prevention, CBS 19 reported.