GI & Endoscopy

A study published in Gut explores antibiotics' long-term use and the risk of colorectal adenomas.

After a recent bacterial infection left five patients sick in an overseas facility, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., wrote Tokyo-based Olympus requesting information proving their redesigned duodenoscopes were safe, the Los Angeles Times reports. 

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.