Here are three gastroenterologists in the news this past week.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration is seeing positive results from its campaign to reduce healthcare-associated infections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a study published in American Journal of Infection Control.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) called for an ethics probe of Rep. Tom Price, MD, who is President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head HHS, which could delay his confirmation hearing, according to a report in The Washington Times.
In September 2014, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published its audit of Tulare Regional Medical Center, an acute care hospital in California. In its findings, federal investigators determined the “hospital did…
J. Calvin Coffey, PhD, of Ireland-based University of Limerick, argues that a structure in the digestive system should be classified as a new organ.
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The new Lancaster (Ohio) Specialty Surgery Center opened its doors, according to Lancaster Eagle-Gazette.
James Follette, MD, a former anesthesiologist and former drug addict, was recently profiled on syracuse.com for his work as an addiction medicine specialist.
Joseph Binns, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Red Bank (N.J.) Gastroenterology.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care accredited Red Bank, N.J.-based Maxillofacial Surgical Center.