GI & Endoscopy

The American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation has granted Rodney D. Newberry, MD, its AGA-Providence Food Intolerance Research Award. 

Theodore M. Bayless, MD, is professor of medicine and director emeritus of the Meyerhoff Digestive Disease-Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. He has served as director of the AGA section on Immunology, Microbiology and Inflammatory Disorders…

Kentucky will receive around $2.6 million in federal grant funding to improve colon cancer screening rates and health outcomes, according to a Floyd County Times report. 

The American Gastroenterological Association, Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America and Janssen Biotech have selected the winner of the 2015 AGA-CCFA-Janssen Research Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Epigenetics Research.

The CMS Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests recently held a vote on whether to maintain current Medicare reimbursement for Exact Sciences' Cologuard.

Andres Gelrud, MD, MMSc, is a clinical pancreatologist and an associate professor of medicine at The University of Chicago Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterology Association and American Pancreas Association.

The FDA has cleared RiduZone as a new dietary supplement.

Here are seven recent news updates on gastroenterology and endoscopy companies.

Gastroenterologist Ross Jones, MD, has joined Lourdes and Mercy Medical Associates' Mercy Gastroenterology office in Paducah, Ky., according to a surfkyNEWS report.

Canadian researchers have published their results of a study focused on a new blood screening tests for colorectal cancer in the journal Biomedical Optics Express.