GI & Endoscopy

Houston-based Texas County Memorial Hospital will offer free colorectal screenings for colorectal cancer awareness month in the second week of March 2017, Ozark Radio News reports.

Specialty physicians, including gastroenterologists, are struggling to participate as the healthcare arena adapts to Alternative Payment Models. At a recent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission meeting, several commissioners noted the lack of opportunities for specialists to enter into Advanced APMs. Proposals…

The FDA granted four GI-related device clearances in January.

David Freeto, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Napa, Calif.-based Queen of the Valley Medical Center.

Burlington, Mass.-based ArQule's and Tokyo, Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo's drug, tivantinib, failed to meet its primary endpoint of improving hepatocellular carcinoma patients' survival rate.

Henrico-based Virginia Endoscopy Group added two procedure rooms and five recovery bays in a recent expansion, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

Here are the five most read gastroenterology/endoscopy stories from Feb. 13 to Feb. 17, 2017.

Andrew Minkin, MD, is a gastroenterologist with Berlin, Vt.-based Green Mountain Gastroenterology.

Here are three gastroenterologists in the news this past week.

Japan-based Takeda acquired Cambridge, Mass.-based Ariad Pharmaceuticals for $24 per share, Yahoo! Finance reports.