Cologuard, Exact Sciences' colorectal cancer screening test, has shown a 92 percent detection rate of colorectal cancer and a 42 percent detection rate of pre-cancerous polyps.
GI & Endoscopy
The Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates has recently released a series of points to take into consideration for the correct reprocessing of endoscopes, according to an EndoNurse report.
Here are five steps to cut supply costs in gastroenterology and endoscopy centers from Daren Smith, director of clinical services for Surgical Management Professionals.
Here are 20 statistics on GI physicians and workplace burn out, according to Medscape's Physician Lifestyle Report 2013.
Cernostics, Pittsburgh and Danville, Penn.-based molecular diagnostics company, has announced John M. Inadomi, MD, will serve as a scientific adviser.
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EndoSoft, Schenectady, N.Y.-based medical software company, has announced that it will be presenting gastroenterology-geared software at the 2013 Digestive Disease Week.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare has released three statistics on colonoscopy procedure times in ambulatory surgery centers. The data was collected from 100 facilities that annually perform an estimated combined 353,300 colonoscopies.
The Medical Society of the State of New York has re-elected Jerome Craig Cohen, MD, board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine, as its speaker.
A study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, analyzing the Delaware Cancer Consortium reported that the mortality rate of African-American patients with colorectal cancer has been reduced by 41 percent, according to an American Society of Clinical Oncology news…
A University of Michigan study, led by researchers including Chung Owyang, MD, chief of the university's gastroenterology division and John Kao, MD, associate professor of internal medicine at the unversity , found that irritable bowel syndrome intestinal flare-ups could be…