GI & Endoscopy

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

The Green Bay Packers and Exact Sciences are partnering to promote colorectal cancer awareness throughout the 2017 NFL season.

The National Institutes of Health awarded UC Riverside researcher Declan McCole, PhD, a $1.83 million grant.

Researcher Hwa-Young Michael Yeh, PhD, donated $50,000 to the Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute in Annandale, Va., to support the institute's hepatitis B screening clinic, Connection Newspapers reports.

Ross Meidinger, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Fargo, N.D.-based Center for Digestive Health. Sanford Health is the center's parent company.

Salt Lake City-based Mountain West Endoscopy serves the Salt Lake City region and its surrounding communities.

Here is how five major, publicly traded gastroenterology companies fared in the stock market for the week of Aug. 7 to Aug. 11, 2017.

The American Gastroenterological Association issued five recommendations for therapeutic drug monitoring for inflammatory bowel disease, MPR reports.

The Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation bestowed the 2017 Massry Prize on UC San Diego's Rob Knight, PhD; Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis' Jeffrey Gordon, MD; and University of Colorado in Boulder's Norman Pace, PhD.

Here is how four major, publicly traded ASC chains fared in the stock market for the week of Aug. 7 to Aug. 11, 2017.