GI & Endoscopy

New York City-based Colon Cancer Foundation launched its "Protect Your Butt" colorectal cancer awareness campaign Feb. 28, 2017.

Denison, Iowa-based Crawford County Hospital paid the widow of a patient who underwent a colonoscopy and later died from a severe infection $500,000, The Des Moines Register reports.

Victoria, Australia-based Immuron has developed an oral immunotherapy using polyclonal antibody products, in place of antibiotics, to combat superbugs and antibiotic resistant bacteria, and boost the effectiveness of novel treatments.

Barry Frank, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Tampa-based Florida Medical Clinic.

The American Gastroenterological Association named 18 gastroenterologists in its second Future Leaders Program class.

The American Gastroenterological Association published two new evidence-based Crohn's Disease guidelines in Gastroenterology.

Indianapolis-based Meridian Medical Group gastroenterologists are seeing patients at Greencastle, Ind.-based Putnam County Hospital, the Banner Graphic reports.

Here are the five most read gastroenterology and endoscopy stories from Feb. 20 to Feb. 25, 2017.

AmSurg has contributed more than 1 million records to the GI Quality Improvement Consortium quality registry.

Christopher Cutler, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Salt Lake City-based Granite Peaks Gastroenterology.