GI & Endoscopy

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.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Strasbourg University developed a method for imaging and characterizing the esophageal wall using a tethered capsule, according to Medical Physics Web.

In a study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, researchers found patients with celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity showed similar neurological manifestations in response to a gluten-free diet.

Shivagi T. Kothari, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine and the associate director of endoscopy at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center. She has expertise in interventional endoscopic ultrasound, advanced therapeutic ERCP, esophageal endotherapy for Barrett's esophagus, double…