GI & Endoscopy

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.

Peter B. Kelsey, MD, is associate director of the endoscopy unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.  

Endoscopy Center of Greater Long Beach (Calif.) has published form D announcing $1.96 million equity financing, according to an OctaFinance report.