GI & Endoscopy

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have developed an alternative to the traditional injection: an ingestible capsule covered in "microneedles" that would deliver drugs directly into the GI tract.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has demonstrated that timing of gluten exposure and breast-feeding duration do not seem to influence celiac disease development, according to a Medscape report.

Engineered yogurt bacteria has the potential to join the ranks of existing colorectal cancer screening methods, according to an MPR report.

Here are nine gastroenterologists who made headlines within the past week.

Adenoma detection rate benchmarks are currently set at 25 percent for male and 15 percent for female colonoscopy patients. A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that these benchmarks may need to be higher, according…

Esse Health, St. Louis-based independent physician group, has added Digestive Disease Specialists, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

A risk stratification model has the potential to reduce the use of CT scans in emergency department patients with Crohn's disease by 43 percent, according to a report by The Oncology Report.

Biopharmaceutical company PAION AG will present two scientific abstracts on Remimazolam as a short acting sedative at the Anesthesiology 2014 Annual Meeting and American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting.  

Last week, biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences travelled to Capitol Hill to brief members of Congress on the cost of its hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, according to a Jewish Times report.

Here are 10 things to know about gastroenterologists and GI/endoscopy procedures performed in the United States.