GI & Endoscopy

Norton Healthcare, based in Louisville, Ky., has become the first Kentucky healthcare system to offer the non-invasive stool-based colorectal cancer screening test Cologuard, according to a WHAS 11 abc news report.

Mauna Kea Technologies announced the final results of a clinical trial assessing the use of probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy in the diagnosis of biliary cancer during ERCP.

Rudolph Bedford, MD, practices with Southern California Gastroenterology Group in Santa Monica and is the director of pancreatico-biliary services at University of California Los Angeles. He also serves as president of Southern California Society of Gastroenterology.

The controversy surrounding the price tag of brand name hepatitis C drugs has been raging since the treatments entered the market. Now, there could be a different option. Gilead Sciences plans to allow generic drug makers to produce a new…

US Endoscopy has released its Roth Net retriever – mini polyp, according to an EndoNurse report.

Here are five recent GI/endoscopy company news updates.

J. Sumner Bell III, MD, provides care at Gastroenterology Ltd. of Virginia Beach (Va.), a division of Tidewater Gastroenterology. He is also a professor of clinical internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va. He is a past…

The FDA approved the first generic version of Nexium  — esomeprazole magnesium delayed-release capsules — to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Physician burnout is a significant cause for concern, particularly as the possibility of a shortage looms on the horizon. Here are 14 statistics on the root causes of gastroenterologist burnout, according to the Medscape Gastroenterologist Lifestyle Report 2015.

Peter A. Banks, MD, is director of the Center for Pancreatic Disease and the clinical research track at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He also serves as a professor of medicine at Boston-based Harvard Medical School. He is a…