GI & Endoscopy

On Thursday, the FDA will hold an advisory panel meeting to examine the safety, efficacy and relative benefits of the investigational TOPAS System, according to Medpage Today.

John P. Cello, MD, is a practicing gastroenterologist and director of the Gastrointestinal Motility and Secretion Center at University of San Francisco Medical Center. He is a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association and a member of the American College…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will live-stream a colonoscopy on the mobile app Periscope on March 1.

The FDA has reiterated its November 2015 Safety Communication recommending that organizations using Custom Ultrasonics' Automated Endoscope Reprocessors transition to alternative methods to reprocess flexible endoscopes.

One in four colorectal cancer cases, detected through a guiac fecal occult blood testing program, are diagnosed within two years of a negative screening result, according to a study in the UEG Journal.

Michael E. Cannon, MD, is a gastroenterologist practicing at Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Health System and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Center in Tory, Mich. He is also an associate professor at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn.

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

Manhattan Gastroenterology in New York is offering anal pap smears.

Pentax Medical updated reprocessing instructions for its ED-3490TK video duodenoscope, according to a Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News report.

AllianceHealth Pryor in Pryor Creek, Okla., welcomed Susan Young, DO, to its medical staff, according to The Times.