Continental Who's Who, a publisher of business leader biographies, has named gastroenterologist Douglas M. Weissman, MD, FACP, its 2014 to 2015 Prominent Physician of the Year.
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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…
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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.