GI & Endoscopy

In the U.S., about 12,500 clinical gastroenterologists are in private practice, multispecialty groups and hospital-based settings.

Male sex, active smoking and previous intestinal resection are risk factors for postoperative endoscopic recurrence of Crohn’s disease, according to a study in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Medscape released the Ethics Report 2018: Money, Romance and Patients survey, which asked physicians their thoughts on key ethics issues, including whether it's acceptable for physicians to date their patients, random drug testing and more.

UC Los Angeles G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience Executive Director Emeran Mayer, MD, will join uBiome's medical advisory board.

Indianapolis Monthly released its annual Top Doctor list.

A Manhattan jury found New York City-based NYU Langone Hospital colorectal surgeon Christian Hirsch, MD, guilty of negligence after a patient died from infection, the New York Post reports.

Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD, is the chief of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Tucson-based University of Arizona.

Fecal microbiota transplantation for IBD will need to be adaptive and individualized moving forward, according to the American Gastroenterological Association.

Paul Macklin, PhD, an associate professor at the Indianapolis-based Indiana University School of Informatics and member of the Indiana University Cancer Center, received a $3.1 million grant to fund research for new colorectal cancer treatments through computer simulations. About one-third…

Lancaster, Pa.-based RGI & MidAtlantic Endoscopy commenced its new surgery center project with a wall-breaking ceremony.