GI & Endoscopy

  Munich-based Elsevier launched its Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy for physicians and scientists.

Stephen Allen, PhD, a professor at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, has discovered that probiotics may not reduce antibiotic-associated diarrhea in elderly patients, according to a Nursing Times report.

A team of European researchers is getting closer to finding the cause of inflammatory bowel disease in order to open up new treatment possibilities, according to a CORDIS report.

Pentax Medical is sponsoring a live endoscopy course at University College Hospital in London, according to a Zenopa report.

Phase 2 of the clinical study for the drug eluxadoline showed improvements for patients with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea over the placebo treatment, according to a Healio report.

Mailed outreach invitations brought more underserved patients in for colorectal cancer screenings than for usual care, according to a News-Medical report.

  Researchers from Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and Imperial College London have found that white Americans who are eligible for bariatric surgery are twice as likely to undergo the procedure as black Americans, despite more blacks being…

The global market for endoscopy systems is estimated to reach a value of $5.8 billion by 2018, according to a report from Global Industry Analysts.

The FDA has released the first official, legally binding rules regulating what food companies can label as gluten-free, according to a capital public radio report.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has submitted a biologics license application to the FDA for its Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis treatment vedolizumab, according to a Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News report.