GI & Endoscopy

Physician practices across many specialties are opting for hospital owners or merging to leverage the power of larger numbers, but does this trend hold as much sway for small GI practices?

Paul J. Thuluvath, MD, is chief of the division of gastroenterology at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore and medical director of The Melissa L. Posner Institute for Digestive Health & Liver Disease at Mercy. He is a fellow of the…

Baltimore-based Mercy Medical Center is opening its new endoscopy suite.

The FDA has ordered Fujifilm Medical Systems, Hoya PENTAX and Olympus to begin postmarket surveillance studies focused on how duodenoscopes are reprocessed in real-world healthcare settings.

Craig S. Gordon, MD, is a co-founder Houston Gastroenterology Associates. He is a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology and a member of American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and American Gastroenterology Association. He is currently on the staff of…

Here are four news updates on key gastroenterology and endoscopy companies.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researcher analyzed data from more than 393,000 individuals diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer between 1975 through 2010 via National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry. Researchers predicted the rates of…

David G. Forcione, MD is the associate director of interventional endoscopy at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both located in Boston. He is board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine.

Rome, Ga.-based Harbin Clinic added H. Whitney Jennings, MD, according to a Rome New-Tribune report.

Digestive Diseases and Sciences, a renowned medical journal in the gastroenterology and hepatology fields, published the results of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Reduction Evaluation and Safety Trial study.