GI & Endoscopy

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.

The American Gastroenterological Association launched a new tool that could help improve patient knowledge about several gastroenterology topics while also keeping the information bi-lingual and easy to understand. 

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health added Kimberly Kolkhorst, DO, a gastroenterologist and advanced endoscopist, to its Essentia Health-32nd Avenue Clinic in Fargo, N.D., according to a Prairie Business Magazine report.