GI & Endoscopy

Salix Pharmaceuticals will buy Santarus for $32 per share in a transaction expected to close in the first quarter of 2014.

Gilbert Simoni, MD, of Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, Calif., is also the founder of the practice Advanced GI. Here he shares six tips for gastroenterologists striving to build patient engagement and improve patient satisfaction.

Cantel Medical completed its acquisition of Israel-based JetPrep, a company that produces single-use irrigation and aspiration catheters for colonoscopy procedures, according to a Globes report.

A recent study, commissioned by Harris Interactive, found 72 percent of U.S. adults experience at least one gastrointestinal symptom a few times a month or more without speaking to a physician.

Physicians Endoscopy has received the Cost Management Preference Award at the 2013 MedAssets Healthcare Business Summit.

Gastroenterologist Glenn Madokoro, MD, of Newport Beach, Calif., has increased his practice's healthcare information technology offering to provide better patient-centered care, according to a Digital Journal report.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new Vital Signs report that found one in three adults 50 to 75 years old are not being tested for colorectal cancer.

Here are eight gastroenterology-related devices that received FDA 510(k) clearance in October.

Core Physicians in Exeter, N.H., and Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock have teamed up to provide better gastroenterology and cardiology services to pediatric patients, according to a Seacoast Online report.

Colonoscopy has recently come under fire as an expensive, and often unnecessary, test, particularly in a recent article in The New York Times. Here, three gastroenterologists combat these claims and delve into why colonoscopy is a vital tool.