GI & Endoscopy

Birmingham-based Alabama Digestive Health and Endoscopy Center was established in March 2008 as an ASC.

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

A study, published in BMJ, examined the correlation between childhood onset inflammatory bowel disease and cancer risk.

Nicole Griglione, MD, is a gastroenterologist at GI Associates in Brookfield, Wis.

Here is how five major, publicly traded gastroenterology companies fared in the stock market for the week of Sept. 18 to Sept. 22, 2017.

Landos Biopharma completed a series A financing round raising $10 million.

A study from England-based Oxford University further validated Medial EarlySign's ColonFlag.

The FDA approved Bracco Diagnostics' Tagitol V oral suspension for adult patients undergoing virtual colonoscopy.

Allergan's board of directors authorized the company to buy back $2 billion in stock, while also committing to increasing its quarterly dividends and reaffirming its decision to pay down $3.75 billion in debt by 2018.

Daryl M. McClendon, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Anchorage-based Alaska Digestive and Liver Disease Clinic.