GI & Endoscopy

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

Here are five gastroenterology companies that made news this last week.

Salt Lake City-based Granite Peaks Gastroenterology is doing its part for Colon Cancer Awareness Month by dispelling common myths associated with colonoscopy.

The FDA, CDC and American Society for Microbiology created a set of voluntary, standardized duodenoscope surveillance sampling and culturing protocols.

Due to higher participation rates, CT colonography screening for colorectal cancer is more cost-effective than colonoscopy screening, according to a study in Radiology.

Fred Fowler, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolina Digestive.

Rochester, Minn-based Mayo Clinic's Paul Limburg, MD, is joining Exact Sciences as the company's co-CMO.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy rebuked a story by Kaiser Health News and USA Today, stressing how millions of procedures have been safely performed in an ASC or hospital setting.

Daniel Stout, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Carmel, Ind.-based Digestive Health Center.

Providence, R.I.-based University Gastroenterology partnered with Providence College Athletics to raise colon cancer awareness.