GI & Endoscopy

Little Rock, Ark.-based Premier Gastroenterology Associates partnered with real estate company Newmark Moses Tucker Partners of Little Rock to turn a closed Kmart shopping center into its new practice.

Gardner, Mass.-based Heywood Healthcare recognized several of its providers, including gastroenterologist Edmund J. Taylor, MD, during a dinner event, Athol Daily News reports.

The American Gastroenterological Association recognized New York City-based New York University's Lea Ann Chen, MD, as a rising microbe investigator.

Here are three gastroenterologists who made headlines this past week:

Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine.

A study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology examined how follow-up colonoscopy time after positive fecal immunochemical testing affects colorectal cancer rate.

Here are the most read gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Nov. 1 through Nov. 7:

Thomas F. Imperiale, MD, a professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Indiana School of Medicine and a research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research wrote an editorial published in the…

The American Gastroenterological Association lauded the FDA's proposal to have probiotics manufactures disclose the amount of live microbial components in their products using a specific measurement.

Perth, Australia-based University of Western Australia researchers developed an acoustic sensing belt that diagnoses gut disorders, news.com.au reports.