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 ...

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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked the companies that manufacture the complex scopes tied to drug-resistant bacteria infections to prove their recommended cleaning methods work, according ...

The ERCP scope used on the patient tested negative, spokesman Brian Downs said, and the patient became “well” and was discharged. To protect patient privacy, Downs said LVHN could not disclose details ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — An outbreak of drug-resistant “superbug” infections may have sent officials at Virginia Mason Medical Center scrambling for solutions, but hospitals across Seattle — and beyond — say they’re ...

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 ...

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 ...