GI & Endoscopy

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.

Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD, was appointed to the first Philadelphia Commission for Women recently. 

A study, published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, found that the use of prophylactic antibiotics is an effective treatment for patients with cirrhosis hospitalized for upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

The American Gastroenterological Association received National Institutes of Health funding to launch a national registry for short-and long-term patient outcomes of fecal microbiota transplantation.

EndoChoice reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2016.

On July 28, BioFire sponsored a webinar titled "The Clinical IMPACT of the FilmArray GI Panel."

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