GI & Endoscopy

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic launched a $65 million expansion to its Mankato, Minn., campus, the Mankato Free Press reports.

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. partnered with Fight Colorectal Cancer to support the organization's One Million Strong movement which will bring together more than 1 million U.S.-based colorectal cancer survivors.

Here are three updates on GI companies from the past week:

Boston Magazine released its December issue highlighting "Top Doctors" throughout Boston and its surrounding metropolitan area.

A study, published in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, examined the efficacy and safety of different therapies for the treatment of ulcerative colitis.

The American College of Gastroenterology named Greenbrae, Calif.-based Endoscopy Center of Marin gastroenterologist Ripple Sharma, MD, a fellow.

Essam Quraishi, MD, is the founder, president and a gastroenterologist at Santa Ana, Calif.-based Gastrointestinal & Liver Consultants.

Here is how five major, publicly traded gastroenterology companies fared in the stock market for the week of Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 2017.

Artificial intelligence can improve the accuracy and sensitivity of adenoma detection, according to a poster presented at World Congress of Gastroenterology 2017, Oct. 13 to Oct. 18 in Orlando, Fla., Medscape report

Edward Schirack, DO, is a gastroenterologist at Clinical Gastroenterology in Canton, Ohio.