GI & Endoscopy

Boston Scientific reported its fourth quarter 2014 profits were down 19 percent from the same period last year, according to a RTT News report. Here are four things to know about the company's fourth quarter financial results.

Kaiser Permanente Fresno (Calif.) named Smita Rouillard, MD, physician-in-chief of Fresno Medical Center, according to a TBJ Now report.

Geoffrey L. Braden, MD, is a gastroenterologist practicing with Philadelphia-based G.I. Specialists. He also serves as chief of internal medicine at Aria Health and is a clinical associate professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine, both located in…

Upper GI/endoscopy procedure codes have already undergone reduction in reimbursement. This year, lower GI/endoscopy codes, including colonoscopy, were up for CMS review. The potential for cuts was one of the foremost concerns for gastroenterologists in 2014. That review has since…

Colonoscopy is at the heart of gastroenterology. It is a diagnostic and therapeutic tool and it has become the central figure in the crusade against colorectal cancer. Seven gastroenterologists reflect on how the procedure has changed over the past few…

Here are three gastroenterology/endoscopy devices that received FDA 510(k) clearance in the first month of 2015.

David Gill, CFO of EndoChoice, has been appointed to the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee of regenerative medicine company Histogenics.

Medicine has so many different facets; providers' attention is pulled in different directions every day. So much so, many have argued medicine has lost its core focus: the patient.

Primrose Healthcare, a company focused on hepatitis C treatments, has formed a new medical advisory board.

In an editorial published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blaise Polite, MD, of the University of Chicago Medical Center, discussed a recent study that found that lack of education leads to disparities in mortality rates from colorectal cancer.