GI & Endoscopy

A new study led by Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, MD, MBBS, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has demonstrated that early and frequent colonoscopy can be beneficial for inflammatory bowel disease patients, according to a General Surgery…

Simon Behar, MD, is a gastroenterologist practicing at Gastro Health in Miami. He treats a variety of conditions including abdominal pain, anemia, gastroparesis, esophageal cancer and gastritis among several others.

The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Infectious Disease Society-USA and International Antiviral Society-USA are collaborating to update hepatitis C treatment guidelines in light of new, effective treatments, according to a Medscape report.

UnitedHealthcare has announced significant changes to how GI procedures will be reimbursed, according to the American Gastroenterological Association.

Jaime Alalu, MD, is a gastroenterologist practicing at South Florida Gastroenterology Associates in Boynton Beach. He has been practicing medicine for nearly 37 years.

Muhammad Hasan, MD, is a gastroenterologist practicing at Florida Hospital in Orlando. He is presently the director of the advanced endoscopy fellowship program at the Centers for Interventional Endoscopy and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Central Florida…

ORBERA Intragastric Balloon, an Apollo Endosurgery device designed to treat obesity, has earned FDA approval.

Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories from the week of Aug. 3 to Aug. 7.

Pediatric gastroenterologist Benjamin Infantino, MD, has joined the Bernard & Millie Duker Children's Hospital at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center, according to an Observer Chronicle report.

Gastroenterologists are busy physicians, but an important of maintaining a successful career is balance. Here two  gastroenterologists share how they relaxes outside of their practices.