Olympus has issued updated manual reprocessing instructions for duodenoscopes that were linked to a rash of superbug infections, prompting a recall of the medical devices, earlier this year. The FDA ...

The safety communication to health providers comes amid mounting lawsuits after a deadly superbug outbreak at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Chris Newmarker FDA on Thursday relayed an Urgent ...

Medical experts, health officials, lawmakers and patients' families have pinned much of the blame for the UCLA superbug outbreak and others across the country on Olympus Corp. and its gastrointestinal ...

Patient safety is top of mind for hospitals as reimbursement is increasingly linked to clinical quality, but one area that has not changed much in the last decade is bacteria breeding on medical ...

Approved disinfection procedures are ineffective at rendering medical scopes free of infectious bacteria, according to a seven month study published in the American Journal of Infection Control. Of ...

The medical endoscope manufacturer linked to several recent outbreaks of drug-resistant bacteria released new recommended procedures Thursday for reprocessing its devices that federal regulators say ...