GI & Endoscopy

Akira Horiuchi, MD, was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for medical education for his colonoscopy research, The Japan Times reports.

Karlina Patton, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Crestview Hills, Ky.-based Tri-State Gastro.

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

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System added Laxmi Parsa, MD, to its gastroenterology staff, Chattanoogan.com reports.

Bayer added a warning to its prescription-free stomach relief Iberogast drops after a patient died from the product, MDLinx reports.

The Flex Robotic System allows surgeons to remove large colorectal lesions through minimally invasive surgery, MDLinx reports.

Here are the five most popular gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Sept. 6 to Sept. 12, 2018:

Bausch Health and Salix Pharmaceuticals settled outstanding intellectual property claims against their drug Xifaxan from generic drugmaker Actavis Laboratories.

The Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation awarded three 2018 Sherman Prizes to Pittsburgh-based UPMC's David Binion, MD, New York City-based Mount Sinai Hospitals' Jean-Frederic Colombel, MD, and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic's Amy Lightner, MD.

The World Health Organization released new cancer tracking numbers, finding colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world and the second deadliest, CNN reports.