Gastroenterology News

Clark Gamblin, MD, MS, MBA, ran “on the moon” in Antarctica, under hang gliders in South Africa, and next to a starlit ocean in Australia.

Physicians treating Medicare patients are staring down the barrel of five consecutive years of cuts to their reimbursement rates.

The AGA reported that it could not issue a recommendation for or against the use of computer-aided detection in colonoscopy due to “very low certainty of evidence” and “the close tradeoff between the desirable and undesirable effects.”

Machine learning may help identify biomarkers and develop predictive models that could assist in the diagnosis of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and hepatic fibrosis, researchers reported.

It has been 5 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many providers to embrace telehealth.

Using etrasimod with opioids or antidepressants did not increase risk for serotonin syndrome-associated adverse events among patients with ulcerative colitis, according to a study published in United European Gastroenterology Journal.

Barclay Missen had resigned himself to hospice care.

The addition of simvastatin plus rifaximin to standard therapy did not improve outcomes among patients with decompensated cirrhosis who were at high risk for clinical complications, according to a study published in JAMA.

Most pediatric transplant recipients who received live-attenuated viral vaccines after transplant developed protective antibodies that persisted for up to a year after vaccination with no significant safety events, researchers found.