GI & Endoscopy

Amy S. Oxentenko, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.

CMS included Madison, Wis.-based Exact Sciences' Cologuard in its Medicare Advantage Star Ratings program.

Osage Beach, Mo. Lake Regional Health System named gastroenterologist Kevin Byrne, DO, its 2017 Physician of the Year, Lake News Online reports.

Ari Nowain, MD, introduced San Jose, Calif.-based Avantis Medical Systems' Third Eye Panoramic Colonoscopy device.

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.