Duodenoscopes — a specific type of endoscope used in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedures — have been tied to numerous infections and even patient deaths at hospitals across the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Outbreaks of a drug-resistant superbug in Chicago, Seattle and Pittsburgh have been linked to a specialized piece of medical equipment commonly used at Eastern Iowa hospitals. Infection ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA, endoscope manufacturers and hospitals share responsibility for the recent outbreaks of ...

Debbie Smoody expected a routine visit to Allegheny General Hospital in February 2015, when her mother was scheduled to undergo a specialized procedure in which a medical scope would be threaded down ...

Facing growing scrutiny over regulation of medical scopes linked to an outbreak of “superbug” infections at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center and across the nation, federal health officials ...

Three months after deadly superbug outbreaks sparked alarm nationwide, U.S. hospitals are still searching for how best to clean a controversial medical scope and keep patients safe. Federal regulators ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . On Feb. 18, the University of California, Los Angeles Health System notified 179 patients of potential exposure ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hospitals are discovering it’s nearly impossible to clean endoscopes blamed for spreading deadly bacteria that have sparked lawsuits from patients and sent ...

There’s a big brouhaha over a cluster of infections following endoscopy at UCLA, but this needs to be placed in some perspective. It’s not the endoscopes that should scare you; it is the rise of ...

Lawrence Muscarella, a medical safety expert and president of LFM Healthcare Solutions in Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, offers the following advice for patients who may be scheduled for a ...