GI & Endoscopy

Here are four gastroenterologists that made news in the past week:

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.

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.

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.