LEXINGTON, Mass., May 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation, a leading provider of endoscopic imaging and endosurgical solutions, will host education advancement opportunities at the 2022 Digestive Disease Week (DDW®) annual conference and exhibition in booth 4343, held May 21-24 in San Diego. Fujifilm will host multiple physician-led, hands-on sessions within the booth, as well as an off-site symposium on the advances in endoluminal surgery and third space endoscopy.
Author: Praveen Suthrum
SAN DIEGO — Although endoscopic submucosal dissection continues to gain ground in managing colorectal laterally spreading lesions, endoscopic mucosal resection maintains a critical role, according to a debate at Digestive Diseases Week.
Micro-Tech Endoscopy USA, the U.S. subsidiary of the global medical device company Micro-Tech (Nanjing) Co. Ltd, which develops and supplies diagnostic and therapeutic devices in the gastroenterology space, has announced a business partnership with Wision A.I., a startup in the field of artificial intelligence-assisted diagnostics for optical medical imaging. Micro-Tech will be the U.S. GI endoscopy distributor of EndoScreener, an AI-assisted polyp detection software used during colonoscopy procedures.
Iterative Scopes today announced positive trial data in a study of its colorectal cancer screening algorithm, Skout. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Iterative Scopes designed Skout as a computer-aided device (CADe) that uses artificial intelligence and computer vision technology to detect suspicious tissue and provide real-time feedback for gastroenterologists performing the procedure.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, issued an advisory addressing the alarming rate of burnout among health care workers. “The nation’s health depends on the well-being of our health workforce,” Murthy said in an HHS press release. “Confronting the long-standing drivers of burnout among our health workers must be a top national priority.
The American College of Gastroenterology recently released new guidelines on the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease. For our GERD Roundtable series, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News spoke with a panel of GERD specialists to explore some aspects of the guidelines and discuss how they will be implemented in practice. In Part 1, we discuss optimizing the use of PPIs.
At Digestive Disease Week 2022, we met with Folasade (Fola) May, MD, PhD, gastroenterologist, health services researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, who explained the ongoing disparities in colorectal cancer screening and treatment, and trends following new United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening recommendations.
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SonarMD, the leading care coordination company for gut health, will present an abstract at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2022 demonstrating the importance of proactive screening for mental health conditions in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). SonarMD is using this data to identify and connect IBD patients to services that promote emotional well-being and healthy sleep, via new partnerships with Happy and Rise Science.
Further, close to 20% of responding physicians had experiences in which patients or their family members or visitors refused to allow the physician to care for them because of the physician’s racial or ethnic attributes or gender. “This is a staggering number,” says Lotte Dyrbye, MD, senior associate dean of faculty and chief well-being officer at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “Simply having patients or family members say, ‘No, you can’t provide care because of the way you look’ — not because of competency – is really heartbreaking.”
Madison Simons was asked what her goals were on the first day of her postdoctoral psychogastroenterology fellowship at Northwestern University in 2020. “I said I would like to develop a GI behavioral medicine program at one of the top medical institutions in the country,” says Simons, a graduate of Regent University’s Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology program. Just two years later, she landed her dream job.