GI & Endoscopy

At the 2016 GI Roundtable, Gastrointestinal Associates' Bergein Overholt, MD, shared several reasons you should enter into the field of obesity treatment and offered a plan for setting up a multidisciplinary clinic, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy News reports.

Benefis Health, of Great Falls, Mont., recently announced that Jeannie Fahlquist joined its gastroenterology team as a nurse practitioner, the GreatFalls Tribune reports. Here are two thoughts.

Here are three recent news updates on key gastroenterology and endoscopy companies.

Male patients with primary biliary cholangitis have a higher rate than women with PBC, according to a study in Scientific Reports, as reported by GI & Hepatology News.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare recently added gastroenterologist Chad E. Potteiger, DO, to its medical staff at the Tennova Digestive Disease Center, according to a Knoxville News Sentinel report.

Here are six things to know about hourly pay for gastroenterologists, according to Health eCareers' salary calculator.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals entered into a licensing agreement with Norgine for a bowel-cleansing oral solution used to prepare for colonoscopies.

Weill Cornell Medicine scientist Heather Yeo, MD, was awarded a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Clinical Investigator Award for her research, according to a release from the University. 

Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Aug. 1 to Aug. 5, 2016.

EndoChoice's Lumos received FDA clearance and was recently launched in the United States.