Salix Pharmaceuticals, gMed & more — 5 GI company key notes

Here are five updates on GI companies from the past week.

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The FDA permitted Wilson-Cook Medical to market Hemospray, a new endoscopic device for the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding.

The FDA approved Salix Pharmaceuticals’ Plenvu lower-volume polyethylene glycol-based bowel preparation.

Libertyville-based GI Partners of Illinois and Cumming, Ga.-based GI North both switched to the gGastro EHR system by gMed, a Modernizing Medicine company.

Olympus entered a co-development agreement with ai4gi to offer the artificial intelligence solution for real-time clinical decision support during screening and surveillance colonoscopy.

GI Supply’s Spot Ex Endoscopic Tattoo received CE mark approval and launched in Europe.

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