GI & Endoscopy

Here are the five most-read gastroenterology articles for the week of Jan. 24-31:

A federal jury awarded Claudio De Simone, MD, $18 million after they ruled VSL Pharmaceuticals created an unauthorized copycat product and tried to sell it without clinically testing it.

Jeffrey Gordon, MD, a gut microbiome researcher and trained gastroenterologist, won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in biology and biomedicine.

  John M. Inadomi, MD, is the gastroenterology division head at the Seattle-based UW Medicine Department of Medicine.

  Here are three updates on gastroenterology and industry-relevant companies to note:

Gastroenterologist Joseph Hancock, MD, joined South Lake Tahoe, Calif.-based Barton Health, SouthTahoeNow.com reports.

TKS 1 made an investment in gastrointestinal-focused clinical research company Objective GI.

Gastroenterologist David Boss, MD, and other physicians are partaking in the Lakewood, N.J.-based Georgian Court University in the mini-medical school speaker series, TheSandPaper.net reports.

The American College of Gastroenterology endorsed HMP's upcoming Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Summit, April 5-7 in Chicago.

Four Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine gastroenterologists met with a representative of Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to advocate for National Institutes of Health funding, Patient's Voice Act restoration and to close the colonoscopy loophole.