GI & Endoscopy

Sheila Crowe, MD, assessed the state of the American Gastroenterological Association in remarks made at her final Digestive Disease Week as AGA Institute president, June 2 to June 5 in Washington, D.C. 

Here are the five most popular gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of June 4 to June 8, 2018.

Irritable bowel syndrome can be diagnosed using bowel sounds recorded by a noninvasive device, according to a study presented at Digestive Disease Week, July 2 to July 5 in Washington, D.C., and detailed in Medscape.

Raetta Fountain, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Greenville, N.C.-based Atlantic Gastroenterology.

Olympus Corp., donated approximately $3.2 million in medical equipment to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Foundation.

Here are three gastroenterologists that made news recently:

Three more sexual assault suits were filed against former Charleston, W.Va., gastroenterologist Steven Matulis of Charleston (W.Va.) Gastroenterology Associates, the West Virginia Record reports.

Synergy Pharmaceuticals presented data finding chronic idiopathic constipation and irritable bowel syndrome with constipation were both linked to depressed uroguanylin levels in patients.

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

Young people, specifically white females, are at a higher risk of contracting rectal cancer and the medical community doesn't know why, Medscape reports.