GI & Endoscopy

Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Feb. 8 to Feb. 12, 2016.

Earlier this month, Physicians Endoscopy announced a new partnership with Clearwave. Now Physicians Endoscopy's East Side Endoscopy in New York will be one of the first of its centers to roll out the self-service patient registration kiosks.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska has elected two new directors to its board, including gastroenterologist John C. Mitchell II, MD, according to an Omaha.com report.

Neil Gupta, MD, MPH, is a practicing gastroenterologist and assistant professor at Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine. His clinical interests include pancreas disorders, Barrett's esophagus, gastrointestinal bleeding, colon cancer, endoscopic mucosal resection, bile duct cancer and interventional endoscopy.

It's commonly known that the diet and lifestyle of an expecting mother can have a huge effect on the health of her unborn child. What's less well known, however, is the fact that babies also receive a host of probiotic…

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Gastroenterologist Tara Talwar, MD, has become a part of the St. Anthony's Physician Organization in St. Louis.

President Barack Obama's $4.1 trillion spending plan for fiscal year 2017 includes a number of elements that could affect gastroenterology, including a possible change to Medicare colonoscopy reimbursement, according to a report from the American Gastroenterological Association.

Firas H. Al-Kawas, MD, is the director of endoscopy at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., and a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. He previously served as chief of endoscopy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.,…

The FDA's Arthritis Drugs Advisory Committee is backing a medication, which, if approved, would be the first biosimilar monoclonal antibody in the United States, according to a Medscape report.