American Gastroenterological Association President Sheila Crowe, MD, spent the day on Capitol Hill meeting with eight legislators to advocate for issues important to the association.
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Exact Sciences acquired Armune BioScience, a life sciences startup that developed a diagnostic blood test for prostate cancer, MiBiz reports.
Adhesys Medical, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grünenthal Group, received the FDA's Expedited Access Pathway designation for the surgical sealant Vivo.
Deaths from liver cancer increased by 80 percent in the last two decades, making liver cancer the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide after lung cancer.
Clinical Genomics' fecal occult blood test InSure FIT was more effective than two other leading tests in a study of 1,000-plus people, according to a study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
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