GI & Endoscopy

Colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S., despite survivorship rates being high when the disease is detected early, according to the American Cancer Society. The society estimates 50,630 people will die of colorectal cancer in…

Ashish Nimgaonkar, MD, is a gastroenterologist at the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Here are six gastroenterologists that made news recently:

Joseph Savon, MD, was once again named a Top Doc by NJ Top Docs.

Miami-based Center for Digestive Medicine treats patients for a variety of gastrointestinal diseases.

A group of 22 public health and patient advocacy groups are petitioning the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to adopt the American Cancer Society's new colorectal cancer screening guideline, Medscape reports.

Here are the five most popular gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Aug. 23 to Aug. 29, 2018:

Attleboro (Mass.) Gastroenterology Associates added Tanvi Khurana, MD, to its staff, Wicked Local reports.

The National Cancer Institute added Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso's screening program, Against Colorectal Cancer in Our Neighborhoods, into its Research-Tested Intervention Programs database.

Here are four updates on GI companies from the past week: