Researchers conducted a population-based cohort study of the risk of gastrointestinal and extraintestinal cancers in relation to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The results were published in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
GI & Endoscopy
Value-based care is a term heard across all specialties in healthcare, but value is an abstract term. Physicians, payers and patients each have a stake in defining value-based care and what it means for the future of healthcare.
Effective immediately, Gastroenterology Professional Association, New Hampshire-based gastroenterologist group, has adopted the name Atlantic Digestive Specialists, according to a fosters.com report.
A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics, finds that current guidelines for identifying undiagnosed cases of celiac disease are inadequate.
Here are five statistics on the case, costs and mortality rates associated with gastrointestinal disease in the United States, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information report Burden of Gastrointestinal Disease in the United States: 2012 Update.
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has named Leo Treyzon, MD, MS, a gastroenterologist with outpatient surgery center La Peer Health Systems, its Clinical Chief of Gastroenterology.
University of Pennsylvania Medicine celebrated the naming of the Wilmott-Barna Center for Endoscopic Innovation, Research and Training, a center established through a gift from Timothy Wilmott and his wife Nancy Barna.
Rockford Digestive Health Endoscopy Center in North Carolina has received conditional approval for a license to operate as an ambulatory surgery center, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.
In a recent study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, researchers examine the link between withdrawal time in colonoscopy and increased polyp and adenoma detection.
David P. Magner, MD, board-certified surgeon and colorectal surgeon, recently joined La Peer Health Systems, an outpatient surgery center in Beverly Hills, Calif.