American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network volunteer Catherine Blackstone is one of many urging U.S. legislators to close the colonoscopy loophole, according to an article in The Logan Daily News.
GI & Endoscopy
The Drummond Group awarded Modernizing Medicine's EMA and EMA Mobile EHR systems Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 2015 Edition Health IT Module Certification.
Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies subsidiary Ethicon's Linx Reflux Management System was "significantly more effective" at treating gastrointestinal reflux disease than acid suppression drugs.
Pentax Canada will begin selling CapsoVision's CapsoCam Plus system in Canada.
Brian C. Jacobson, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Boston University Gastroenterology.
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The American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases are working to create a new recertification pathway.
Colorectal cancer screening rates increased when people had universal access to healthcare, according to a study published in Cancer.
Lin Chang, MD, is a gastroenterologist at the UC Los Angeles Hospital Vatche & Tamar Manounkian Division of Digestive Diseases.
Gemelli Biotech's ibs -smart blood test for IBS patients is now commercially available.
Motus GI presented research demonstrating the effectiveness of its Pure-Vu System at the ACG 2018 Annual Meeting, held Oct. 5 through Oct. 10 in Philadelphia.