GI & Endoscopy

Here are three updates on GI companies to note from the past week.

Bryan Hudson, MD, PhD, is a gastroenterologist at Tucson-based Arizona Gastroenterology.

Here are six facts on gastroenterologists' salaries, according to PayScale.

A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute claims cancer death rates from 2010 to 2014 are decreasing, but some cancer subtypes remain deadly.

Aleixo Muise, MD, of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, discovered a genome mutation leaving patients with little to no cellular-based proteins, Global News reports.

Lindsay Mohrhardt, DO, is a gastroenterologist at East Lansing-based Michigan Gastroenterology Institute.

Parviz Nikoomanesh, MD, a longtime gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, died March 17, 2017 of brain cancer, the Baltimore Sun reports.

Irving, Texas-based Miraca Life Sciences expanded its InformTx therapeutic drug monitoring program to include Simponi and patient-developed antibodies to Simponi.

The Omaha, Neb.-based Great Plains Colon Cancer Task Force created the burpee challenge to raise colon cancer awareness, Live Well Nebraska reports.

Israel-based researchers created an ingestible robot that can move through a patient's small intestine, the Times of Israel reports.