GI & Endoscopy

The FDA updated its safety alert concerning the Pentax ED-3490TK duodenoscope after Pentax identified a new risk with the ED-3490K duodenoscope.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fined Parsippany-Troy Hills, N.J.-based Allergan $15 million for failing to disclose its 2014 merger talks with Actavis, also based in Parsippany-Troy Hills.

Joseph F. Hacker III, MD, is a gastroenterologist and the president of Newark, Del.-based Gastroenterology Associates.

Connecticut-based medical device developer Lumendi added James Soares as its vice president of sales and Yukio Nakajima as its new senior director of business development.

A television station in the United Kingdom partnered with Cancer Research UK to air a live colonoscopy on public television as it takes place at Cardiff and Vale University hospital, the Independent reports.

New York's Faruqi & Faruqi, a national securities law firm, launched a legal investigation into the board of directors of Cambridge, Mass.-based Ariad Pharmaceuticals ahead of its potential sale to Japan's Takeda for $5.2 billion.

The FDA recommends clinical practices stop using several of Japan-based Fujifilm Medical Systems' older duodenoscopes.

Here are the five most read Becker's gastroenterology/endoscopy stories for the week of Jan. 9 to Jan. 13, 2017.

Here are three gastroenterologists in the news this past week.

Shekhar Challa, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Topeka-based Kansas Medical Clinic.