Presence St. Mary's Foundation Board of Trustees has named gastroenterologist Thomas L. O'Connor, MD, 2014 Physician of the Year at St. Mary's Hospital in Peotone, Ill., according to a report by The Daily Journal.
GI & Endoscopy
Here are six gastroenterologists who made the news in the past week.
The FDA has approved the oral treatment for opioid-induced constipation naloxegol (Movantik), according to a Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News report.
Solos Endoscopy, a healthcare instruments company, has filed a Canadian Medical Device License, which will allow the company to sell certain endoscopic instruments in Canada.
Colonoscopy is widely embraced as the gold standard of colorectal cancer screening, but it is one of many tests designed to detect CRC. A recent study published in The Journal of the AmericanMedical Association examines the effects of flexible sigmoidoscopy…
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Pediatric gastroenterologist Puneet Gupta, MD, has joined Digestive Disease Center of the Hudson Valley, based in Fishkill, N.Y., according to a Daily Freeman Business report.
Jerome Siegel, MD, received the Rudolf V. Schindler Award at the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Crystal Awards in Chicago, according to a Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News report.
Contaminated endoscopes are one of several medical devices frequently associated with outbreaks of healthcare associated infections.
Do the benefits outweigh the growing pressures of practicing in the gastroenterology field? Here are 19 things to know about GI compensation and satisfaction in 2014, according to a Medscape report.
Endoscopic submucosal dissection, though technically challenging, yields high resection rates in the management of colorectal neoplasms, according to a Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News report.