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.
April 23: An Olympus employee dismantles a duodenoscope suspected of infecting 22 patients at a Netherlands hospital. June 27: An independent expert’s report on the Netherlands outbreak calls on ...
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.
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, ...
Three senior executives at scope maker Olympus Corp., which is under federal investigation for its role in superbug outbreaks, including one at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center, repeatedly ...
Doctors have tied a superbug outbreak at a foreign health facility to a medical scope that Olympus modified last year in an attempt to reduce its risk of spreading bacteria between patients. Five ...
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 ...
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 ...
Doctors have tied a superbug outbreak at a foreign health facility to a medical scope that Olympus modified last year in an attempt to reduce its risk of spreading bacteria between patients. Five ...