GI & Endoscopy

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System opened Mount Sinai Doctors Palm Beach (Fla.) focused on bringing primary care, cardiology, gastroenterology and ophthalmology services to the area.

Olympus added a new product to its EndoTherapy portfolio when it became the exclusive distributor of Intelligent Endoscopy's SmartBand Multi-Band Ligation Kit.

Innovate Biopharmaceuticals completed its reverse merger with Monster Digital, entirely absorbing the company and becoming a publicly traded entity.

Evangelical Community Hospital will acquire Central Penn Gastroenterology Associates, effective July 2, The Daily Item reports. Both organizations are based in Lewisburg, Pa.

Kenneth Mirkin, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Fairfax-based Gastroenterology Associates of Northern Virginia.

Here are the five most popular gastroenterology and endoscopy stories from the week of Jan. 22 to Jan. 26, 2018.

Researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center developed CancerSEEK, a single blood test that screens for eight common cancers, while also identifying the cancer's location.

Frank Yeh, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Vancouver, Wash.-based Advanced Gastroenterology.

Here are three gastroenterologists that made headlines this past week.

Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center's GI medical oncology medical director Angela Alistar, MD, is leading research into Rafael Pharmaceuticals' CPI-613, a pancreatic cancer therapy.