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 ...

Infection preventionists and healthcare epidemiologists can play a "significant role" in helping hospital endoscopy departments reduce or eliminate infections caused from duodenoscopes, according to a ...

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 ...

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 . The FDA, endoscope manufacturers and hospitals share responsibility for the recent outbreaks of ...

The deadly pattern of illnesses began to emerge in 2012 at hospitals in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Chicago. In each case, the culprit was a bacteria known as CRE, perhaps the most feared of superbugs, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from SILVER SPRING, Md. — A federal panel concluded Friday that the medical scopes linked to a deadly string of superbug outbreaks are unsafe as designed and urged the U.S. Food and Drug ...

With encouragement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. will start selling single-use medical scopes next year that retail for a few thousand ...

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 ...