Gastroenterology News

Adults with obesity who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass achieved a greater excess BMI loss at 10 years compared with those who underwent a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, according to data published in JAMA Surgery.

In a Healio video exclusive, Edward V. Loftus Jr., MD, discusses the looming threat of gastroenterology workforce shortage, alongside insights from a roundtable of ACG presidents on how we might still avoid it.

High muscle strength and cardiorespiratory fitness reduced mortality for people diagnosed with cancer, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Oral vancomycin therapy resulted in clinical response in nearly half of patients with inflammatory bowel disease associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis, according to a study published in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology.

This month’s Healio Gastroenterology Exclusive highlights a problem that we as physicians “feel” either directly or indirectly nearly every day — labor shortages.

Literature has shown that the workforce shortage in gastroenterology may be approximately 12% to 15% by 2025.

The gastroenterologist workforce shortage has gotten worse, especially with the increased demand for GIs.

At last year’s ACG Annual Scientific Meeting, as president-elect, I sat in at the Board of Governors meeting, where the recurrent theme was workforce shortages in gastroenterology and how we were to address the workforce needs of the future.

A 2016 report from the Health Resources and Services Administration National Center for Health Workforce Analysis projected a shortage of 1,630 full-time physicians by 2025 in the field of gastroenterology.