GI & Endoscopy

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.

Here are the five most read gastroenterology/endoscopy stories from March 27 to March 31, 2017.

Provo, Utah-based Revere Health gastroenterologist Chad Kawa, MD, gave several local residents free colonoscopies for National Colon Cancer Awareness Month, the Herald Extra reports.

Georgetown, Texas-based Scott & White signed onto the American Cancer Society's 80 percent by 2018 initiative, the Temple Daily Telegram reports.

Here are 6 gastroenterologists making headlines the week of March 27, 2017.