GI & Endoscopy

Jeffrey Port, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Oak Lawn, Ill.-based Southwest Gastroenterology Associates.

Here are four practices and hospitals making headlines this past week:

Ahead of their colonoscopies, Steve Martin, Martin Short and Tom Hanks get together every other year to throw a colonoscopy party, Page Six reports.

Here are seven updates on GI societies from the past week:

Reputation Institute released a report ranking the reputation of 22 U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies, Business Insider reports.

A physician diagnosed Texas Rangers relief pitcher Jake Diekman with ulcerative colitis at a young age. After suffering a flare up in November 2017 that lasted into December, he went to Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic seeking a permanent treatment, Yahoo…

A Global Market Insights report has the worldwide endoscopy market surpassing $40 billion by 2024.

Kathleen Martin, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Lexington-based KentuckyOne Health.

The American Gastroenterological Association created an online resource for patients to consult when they're considering probiotic treatments.

Liver cancer incidence and mortality has doubled since the early 1990s in several high-income countries and is the only major cancer where mortality is increasing in those nations, according to findings presented at the Global Hepatitis Summit 2018 in Toronto,…