GI & Endoscopy

Many screening colonoscopies are preceded by office visits. A recent study published in JAMA sought to find the proportion of colorectal cancer screening and polyp screening colonoscopies preceded by office visits and how much these visits cost, according to a…

Hillel Naon, MD, is the interim chief of the gastroenterology and nutrition division and an attending physician at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He also serves as an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at CHLA. He is a member of the…

Here are eight recent stories on colonoscopy on Becker's ASC Review.

Downers Grove, Ill.-based DuPage Medical Group has acquired a four-GI physician group, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., according to a Daily Herald report. 

Ting-Hui Hsieh, MD, is now practicing at the Reno, Nev., office of Gastroenterology Consultants, according to a Reno-Gazette Journal report. 

Peter A. Banks, MD, is director of The Center for Pancreatic Disease and senior physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is also a professor at Harvard Medical School, also in Boston.

Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Jan. 25 to Jan. 29, 2016.

The American Board of Internal Medicine has granted Kyle Eliason, MD, board certification in gastroenterology and hepatology, according to a Bismarck Tribune report. 

The combination drug elbasvir/grazoprevir (Zepatier) from Merck has received FDA approval, according to a Medscape report. 

This month, American Gastroenterological Association Institute President Michael Camilleri, MD, traveled to Capitol Hill to advocate for the specialty.