A mechanism that allows the gut epithelium to signal the immune system to repair tissue damage, which could help inflammatory bowel disease patients, has been revealed in a study published in PNAS.
GI & Endoscopy
Capital Digestive Care, based in Silver Spring, Md., has partnered with Cigna to develop a program designed to improve quality and cost of care for colonoscopy patients.
John Vargo, MD, MPH, is the department chair of gastroenterology and hepatology at Cleveland Clinic as well as vice chairman of Cleveland Clinic's Digestive Disease Institute and president of the Cleveland Clinic medical staff. He is a member of the…
The American Board of Internal Medicine has recertified Louis E. Lataif Jr., MD, in internal medicine, according to a Northwest Georgia News report.
Here are 27 GI/endoscopy devices that received FDA 510(k) clearance from January to July of this year.
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Medicare reimbursement for colonoscopy could be cut significantly in 2016, but the three sister GI societies are not sitting idly buy. Leaders from the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association and American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy weigh in on…
Jacques Van Dam, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine and director of clinical gastroenterology at Keck School Medicine-University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He previously served as president of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Bockus International…
A new smartphone app can accurately analyze an infant's stool to screen for biliary atresia, according to a Futurity report.