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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scope used in an estimated 500,000 surgeries a year in the U.S. has been linked to nine infections and three deaths at the University of Colorado Hospital. "Endoscopic Retrograde ...

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 ...

Doctors at UCLA's flagship hospital were baffled: A healthy 40-year-old woman had fallen deathly ill after a routine procedure. A long black scope had been threaded down her throat to treat ...

Potentially deadly “superbug” infections like those spread by contaminated medical scopes at civilian hospitals in Seattle and elsewhere may have occurred at U.S. Veterans Affairs medical centers as ...

Persistent bacterial growth, sometimes of high-concern pathogens, can occur on duodenoscopes and linear echoendoscopes despite reprocessing and high-level disinfection techniques as recommended by ...

Doctors at UCLA’s flagship hospital were baffled: A healthy 40-year-old woman had fallen deathly ill after a routine procedure. A long black scope had been threaded down her throat to treat ...