GI & Endoscopy

Here are four practices with gastroenterology services making news this past week.

Eight gastroenterologists make up Gateway Gastroenterology and the Gateway Endoscopy Center, both based in St. Louis.

The Buffalo (N.Y.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center is notifying 526 patients a procedure they received was performed with an improperly cleaned endoscope, the Buffalo News reports.

A jury in a Florida state court cleared David Vastola, MD, on Aug. 16, of all responsibilities in a case a patient brought against him, CVN reports.

Walla Walla, Wash.-based Providence Medical Group added gastroenterologist Patrick Laing, MD, to its staff, the Union-Bulletin reports.

The Digestive Diseases Center at University of Chicago Medicine has been serving Chicago and the Chicagoland area since 1927.

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.