EXTON, Pa., April 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — US Digestive Health (USDH), one of the largest gastroenterology (GI) practices in the nation, celebrated the opening of its newest gastroenterology office space in Collegeville, Pennsylvania on Thursday, April 20. An open house for referring physicians and other attendees took place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. following the opening at 100 Springhouse Drive, Suite 205, Collegeville, Pennsylvania. USDH is a trusted provider of gastroenterology services, committed to improving the digestive health and well-being of its patients. The new location in Collegeville offers a range of services, including management of inflammatory bowel…
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Bushra Sulieman, MD, a practicing gastroenterologist at Mercy Iowa City’s Gastroenterology Clinic, was stabbed to death in Sudan, according to an April 27 report from ABC affiliate KCRG. Dr. Sulieman lived in Sudan but frequently traveled to Mercy Iowa City (Iowa) to perform surgeries. He has been a physician at the hospital since February 2021. He was reportedly killed during ongoing violence in the African country while taking his father to dialysis.
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Hormones released by the stomach, such as ghrelin, play a key role in stimulating appetite. These hormones are produced by endocrine cells that are part of the enteric nervous system, which controls hunger, nausea, and feelings of fullness. MIT engineers have now shown that they can stimulate these endocrine cells to produce ghrelin, using an ingestible capsule that delivers an electrical current to the cells. This approach could prove useful for treating diseases that involve nausea or loss of appetite, such as cachexia (loss of body mass that can occur in patients with cancer or other chronic…
Two types of bariatric-metabolic surgery were more effective than lifestyle modification plus best medical care in the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a randomized trial from Italy showed. In over 200 patients with obesity and biopsy-confirmed NASH who completed the study, the primary endpoint of histological resolution of NASH (without worsening of fibrosis) was met by 56% of patients assigned to Roux-en-Y and 57% of those randomized to sleeve gastrectomy, as compared with only 16% of participants who underwent lifestyle modification, reported Geltrude Mingrone, MD, PhD, of King’s College London, and colleagues.
After being diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer, Jason McGrath is launching a blood test nationwide for the third-most common form of cancer in the U.S. Two years ago, McGrath, a U.S. Air Force veteran who fought in the Iraq War, was a healthy 42-year-old playing basketball when he felt stabbing pain in his stomach and started turning green.
The concept of hybrid care has seemingly been everywhere since the start of the year. It showed up in a number of industry predictions for 2023, was the subject of questions lobbed at Teladoc in their most recent earnings call, and is at the root of agreements like CVS’s purchase of Oak Street Health and Amazon’s rollout of One Medical. Part of this is because healthcare is now following the proven model of convergence in other industries like ecommerce and retail. But healthcare has its own flavor, what we like to call hybrid collaborative care. Rather than simply acquiring or…
Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Veena Shankaran, co-director of Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, about a new study that found most patients with metastatic colorectal cancer face financial hardship after diagnosis. While has been a lot of research on the economic burden of cancer treatment, this is the first study that looks at newly diagnosed patients. The study found that more than 70 percent of patients with metastic colorectal cancer faced financial hardships within a year of diagnosis, even with most having health insurance. Join Dr. Mathew and Dr. Shankaran to hear how financial complications affect treatment and outcomes for many patients,…
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I’m Dr David Johnson, professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Welcome back to another GI Common Concerns. The stethoscope is something that we almost always have in our coat pocket to use on our patients, perhaps to listen to their heart or maybe their abdomen. But what do we do with that information? In a recently published review, Dr Larry Brandt, one of the true masters of gastroenterology and the renowned educators during my 40 years in the field, expounds on the use…
Private equity has seen a huge opportunity in gastroenterology in the last few years. Here are 10 gastroenterology groups, followed by their private equity partner and number of physicians: GI Alliance (Southlake, Texas) Private equity partner: Apollo Hybrid Number of physicians: 786+ PE GI Solutions (Jamison, Pa.) Private equity partner: Kelso Number of physicians: 600+
A new treatment option may help relieve chronic constipation in patients who might not respond well to traditional therapies. To learn more about a novel FDA-approved vibrating capsule, join Dr. Peter Buch as he speaks with Dr. Eamonn Quigley, the David M. Underwood Chair of Medicine in Digestive Disorders and a Professor of Medicine at Houston Methodist.