Gastroenterologists Glen Lehman, MD, and William Kessler, MD, performed the first live Medigus Ultrasonic Surgical Endostapler procedure in the United States at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., according to an EndoNurse report.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering a continuing medical education course on colonoscopy.
Daniel K. Podolsky, MD, is president of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, a position he has held since September 2008. He holds the Philip O'Bryan Montgomery, Jr., M.D. Distinguished Presidential Chair in Academic Administration. He is…
The Colon Cancer Coalition will host the inaugural Tour de Tush, presented by Olympus, on June 13.
Scott E. Plevy, MD, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. He was co-director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the University of Pittsburgh and has served as…
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U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, MD, has introduced his proposed replacement to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a report by The New Orleans Advocate.
Here are six recent news updates on gastroenterology and endoscopy companies.
Physicians Endoscopy has formed a new joint venture with Garden State Endoscopy Center in Kenilworth, N.J.
Female gastroenterologists have increasingly stepped into senior academic authorship roles, but their numbers remain lower than expected.
A federally funded study found two different colorectal cancer treatments to have similar efficacy, but a new cost analysis has found there is a significant difference in cost between the two treatment options, according to a Medscape report.