GI & Endoscopy

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.

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.