AGA Trainee and Early Career Committee and Quality — Measures Committee member Chioma Ihunnah Anjou, MD, spoke to U.S. legislators for Advocacy Day Sept. 14.
GI & Endoscopy
A study published in Gastroenterology explored how organized colorectal cancer screening programs impacted community-based populations' screening rates.
Here are the five most popular gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Sept. 13 to Sept. 19, 2018:
Little Rock-based The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Gastroenterology Clinic added Stephan Dehmel, MD, to its staff, Arkansas Money & Politics reports.
An Australian professional society's attempt to ban repeat standard-dose proton pump inhibtors prescriptions for gastroesophageal reflux patients was scrapped after several physicians protested, Pharmacy News reports.
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Assemblymember Harvey Epstein, D-N.Y., visited New York City-based East Side Endoscopy and Pain Management Center for National ASC Month.
Here are four updates on GI companies from the past week:
A toxicology report showed Thomas Chan was allegedly high on mushrooms when he fatally stabbed his father Andrew Chan, MD, TheRecord.com reports.
A study published in JAMA found no correlation between intense colorectal cancer surveillance and increased detection or survival rates, Clinical Oncology News reports.
The California Insurance Commission is suing AbbVie saying the drugmaker allegedly offered physicians kickbacks for its popular, gastroenterology drug Humira, which resulted in $1.2 billion in fraudulent claims, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.