GI & Endoscopy

Here are three gastroenterologists that made headlines this past week.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is urging everyone 50 years and older to get screened for colorectal cancer.

PGA Tour Champions golfer and Exact Sciences spokesman Jerry Kelly is urging his fellow golfers to get screened for colon cancer.

Physicians Endoscopy, a GI-driven ASC and endoscopy center company, is involved with several initiatives to kick off Colon Cancer Awareness Month.

The Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates recently launched The Inside Tract, an online content source with articles, commentary, news and trends.

Here are three practices with gastroenterology services making news.

Fort Myers, Fla.-based Riverwalk Endoscopy and Surgery Center gastroenterologist Asif Choudhury, MD, allegedly sexually assaulted two women while conducting colonoscopies, the News-Press reports.

The final subject has completed treatment and the subsequent two-week monitoring period in Antibe Therapeutics' Phase 2B double-blind clinical trial of pain drug ATB-346.

Karen Woods, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Houston Methodist Gastro Associates.

The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable will recognize retired gastroenterologist and colorectal cancer survivor Sam Pace, MD, for his advocacy work focused on raising awareness of the disease, the Daily Journal reports.