GI & Endoscopy

William E. Whitehead, PhD, and several other Chapel Hill-based University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers, updated the diagnostic criteria used for functional gastrointestinal disorders published in the Rome Foundation’s Rome IV, Science Daily reports.

John I. Allen, MD, is chief of the gastroenterology and hepatology department at Yale Medical group in New Haven, Conn. He also serves as president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

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

Zacks gave Boston Scientific stock a short term rating of "buy," according to a Trade Calls report.

Orlando (Fla.) Gastroenterology added Sridhar Goli, MD, to its physician team.

A recent CDC study found while the U.S. healthcare system has the capacity to reach the CDC's goal of screening 80 percent of adults by 2018 for colorectal cancer, the system is lagging.

University of Vermont Health Network, Alice Hyde Medical Center added John Ho Kim, MD, to its gastroenterology practice, according to a Press Republican report.

Cantel Medical named Ronnie Myers, DDS, to its board of directors.

Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical injected the first human subject with the company's norovirus vaccine candidate in a Phase 2b field trial.

Mark. E. McAlindon, BM, PhD, will cycle 300 miles from Newcastle, England to Liverpool, England, as part of GastroCycle, according to The Star.