GI & Endoscopy

An international team of researchers led by Ulrike Peters, PhD, MPH, has identified six new locations in the human genome that could indicate higher risk for colorectal cancer.

Here are 20 news updates on gastroenterology and endoscopy company activity in the first half of this year.

Ann Marie Stephenson, DO, practices with Capital Digestive Care's Associates in Gastroenterology in Silver Spring, Md. She was the practice's 60th physician. She is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and American College of Osteopathic Internists.

Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital has acquired the Olympus EVIS EXERA III video endoscopy system, according to a VT Digger report.

UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles is planning to install a new scope cleaning machine from Langford IC Systems on a trial basis, according to the Los Angeles Times.

EGD is used for the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease, but the frequency of the procedures performed may not match with the recently clarified guidelines from the American College of Physicians.  

Modernizing Medicine has signed a definitive agreement to acquire gastroenterology EHR company gMed.

Leonard B. Stein, MD, is medical director of the Long Island Center for Digestive Health in Garden City, N.Y. He also serves as clinical assistant professor of medicine at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a…

Barstow (Calif.) Health Partners added Ann Lee, MD, according to a Desert Dispatch report.

Seth Gross, MD, a gastroenterologist with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, weighed in on whether new colonoscopy technologies are helpful or over-hyped in an issue of AGA Perspectives.