GI & Endoscopy

Ferring Pharmaceuticals, in partnership with the Colon Cancer Alliance, has announced the launch of its Take a Stand Against Colon Cancer campaign, which will run from April 2013 to May 2014, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

Physicians Endoscopy, USHC Gastroenterology and Cedar-Brainard Surgery Center have partnered to open the University Suburban Endoscopy Center in South Euclid, Ohio.

Raymond Chung, MD, deputy director of gastroenterology and liver transplant director at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, recently presented developments in hepatic encephalopathy at the American Chinese Medical Exchange Society spring conference, according to a SAMPAN report.

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.

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.

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.