GI & Endoscopy

Takeda Pharmaceutical reported strong financials for three quarters of fiscal year 2015, from April to December.

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

Madison, Wis.-based Exact Sciences filed a lawsuit against Humana in Kentucky federal court over the payer's refusal to reimburse for the company's non-invasive colorectal cancer screening test Cologuard, according to a WisBusiness report. 

Physicians Endoscopy has formed a new agreement with kiosk company Clearwave to improve the patient registration process. 

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.