GI & Endoscopy

Here are six updates on gastroenterology companies from the past few weeks:

Boston Scientific increased its sales 7.7 percent to $2.39 billion for the third quarter of fiscal year 2018.

The joint venture Endoscopy Center of Niagara in Wheatfield, N.Y., filed papers to turn its temporary operating license into a permanent one, Buffalo Business First reports.

The Colon Cancer Coalition is raising funds for a replacement giant, inflatable colon after its colon was stolen from a truck at Kansas City-based University of Kansas Cancer Center, The Kansas City Star reports. 

Lt. Cmdr. Brent Lacey, MD, was recognized with the U.S. Navy's Captain Walter J. Coyle Award for Clinical Gastroenterology for his excellent patient care.

Enterome entered into an agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical to cover Enterome's lead investigational drug candidate EB8018 for patients with Crohn's disease.

Richard Blumberg, MD, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in medicine.

Sean McGarr, DO, will join Lewiston-based Central Maine Healthcare as its medical director, the Sun Journal reports.

Austin (Texas) Gastroenterology will be the anchor tenant of a Bee Cave, Texas-based medical office building, Community Impact reports.

Charlene LePane, DO, is a gastroenterologist at Celebration-based Central Florida Gastroenterology & Hepatology.