Mailed outreach invitations brought more underserved patients in for colorectal cancer screenings than for usual care, according to a News-Medical report.
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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.
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The Sandler-Kenner Foundation has announced it will give Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., a $500,000, multi-year donation to help fund a study of the early detection of pancreatic cancer.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have developed photometric stereo endoscopy, a new colonoscopy technique that produces three-dimensional images of the colon's surface, according to a MITnews report.
Kennewick (Wash.) General Hospital named Lee Jayson Stone, MD, to its gastroenterology team.
The Florida Medical Association elected Alan Harmon, MD, the group's 137th president at its annual meeting in Orlando, according to a Jacksonville Business Journal report.
Pediatric gastroenterologists at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore have launched a fecal transplant program after studies have shown it to be an effective treatment for drug-resistant C. difficile infections, according to a Science Daily report.