A study, published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, identified risk factors associated with early failure of fecal microbiota transplant in the treatment of recurrent or refractory Clostridium difficile infection.
GI & Endoscopy
Payers are increasingly reimbursing hospitals for becoming more efficient while maintaining quality. In a value-based payment model, patient outcomes are of the utmost importance, and hospitals failing to maintain infection compliance may suffer financial consequences. BioFire created the FilmArray Gastrointestinal…
Antibe Therapeutics named Yung Wu to its board of directors and completed enrollment for its phase 2 clinical trial.
SpectraScience signed a distribution agreement with Advanced Medical German in Kuwait.
Boston-based Brigham & Women's Hospital researchers found seven types of emergency general surgeries accounted for 80.2 percent of inpatient costs in the United States, according to Medscape Multispecialty.
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CMS proposed the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule earlier this year with a few changes for gastroenterology and GI procedures.
Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of July 11 to July 15, 2016.
Maxime M. Mahe, MS, PhD, has won the 2016 AGA-Athena Troxel Blackburn Award.
The global reprocessed medical devices market is anticipated to grow rapidly through 2022, according to a Credence Research report.
A new study, published in Gut, examined the effectiveness of surveillance endoscopy in patients with Barrett's esophagus for reducing esophageal adenocarcinoma-related mortality.