GI & Endoscopy

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…

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.

Mark Pimentel, MD, FRCPC, is the director of the gastrointestinal motility program and laboratory at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he also serves as an associate professor of medicine. The Cedars-Sinai GI Motility Program has grown under Sr.…

Cantel Medical has reported financial results for the third quarter of ended April 30, 2015.

The underwriters participating in the EndoChoice initial public offering are exercising their option to purchase an additional 702,500 shares from the company, as well as 250,000 shares from certain selling stockholders.