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 ...

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 ...

A federal lawmaker is seeking details from the Center Valley manufacturer of medical scopes that have been linked to several “superbug” bacteria outbreaks at U.S. hospitals. U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The manufacturer of medical scopes linked to last month’s superbug outbreak at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center released new cleaning guidelines for its scopes Thursday. At the UCLA and ...

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 ...

A few years back, Olympus came under fire as its duodenoscope was tied to a series of outbreaks across the world in which patients were infected with potentially deadly bacteria. The company’s ...