A superbug outbreak at a foreign health facility has been linked to Olympus-made duodenoscopes that were recently redesigned to prevent such infections, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the U.S.

Reporting from washington — Under fire for selling a medical scope linked to superbug outbreaks, Olympus Corp. is pushing back against its critics and says the design of its product isn’t necessarily ...

In the wake of two dozen infections in French and Dutch hospitals in 2013, Olympus notified European customers that their duodenoscopes could become contaminated. This spurred concern from Laura ...

A number of U.S. hospitals have experienced bacterial outbreaks related to contaminated medical scopes, including at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai hospital. A U.S. lawmaker is ...

Olympus Corp. senior executives invoked the Fifth Amendment when lawyers asked them about internal company correspondence related to the safety of their duodenoscopes in a case brought on by the ...

A jury ordered the giant medical scope maker Olympus Corp. to pay a Seattle hospital $6.6 million in damages tied to a deadly superbug outbreak -- and told the hospital to pay $1 million to a deceased ...

Dr. David Feinberg, then president of the UCLA Health System, right, takes questions from the media outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles in February 2015. At left, is Dr.

A jury ordered medical scope-maker Olympus Corp. to pay $6.6 million in damages to Virginia Mason Medical Center after a deadly superbug outbreak there — and told the hospital, in turn, to pay $1 ...

The number of potentially deadly infections from contaminated medical scopes is far higher than what federal officials previously estimated, a new congressional investigation shows. As many as 350 ...

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, ...

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 ...