GI & Endoscopy

Scranton (Pa.) Endoscopy Center served the residents of Lackawanna County for nearly two decades.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended Allergan's Truberzi for irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea, making it the first such treatment to be recommended for use by the agency, Pharma Times reports.

Commonwealth Diagnostics relaunched its U.S.-based gastroenterology diagnostic testing business.

Chicago Endoscopy Center is the gastrointestinal surgical center of Ramon Garcia, MD.

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

Addison, Ill.-based Bariatric Endoscopy Institute gastroenterologist Nitin Kumar, MD, will address a group of community members at Dine with a Doc, Effingham Daily News reports.

A study, published in Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals, examined new biological drugs which treat metastatic colorectal cancer.

Hermitage, Tenn.-based Associated Endoscopy is the endoscopy center of Hermitage-based Associates in Gastroenterology.

G. Whit James, MD, is a gastroenterologist and one of the founders of Hermitage, Tenn.-based Associates in Gastroenterology.

Here is how five major, publicly traded gastroenterology companies fared in the stock market for the week of Aug. 21 to Aug. 25.