PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Officials say they've figured out how several patients at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital came down with a superbug. Health officials say they think the superbug, called CRE, was ...

National guidelines for the cleaning of certain gastrointestinal scopes are likely to be updated due to findings from an infection prevention team. Approximately 11 million gastrointestinal ...

Shaun Sweeney, vice president of sales and marketing for Cygnus Medical, which specializes in products and services for the endoscopy suite, operating room and sterile processing department, describes ...

Changing the cleaning process of certain gastrointestinal scopes led to a major decrease in healthcare-associated infections at UPMC, according to a study to be presented at ID Week 2014. The UPMC ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to Dennis M. Jensen, MD, FACG, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los ...

A surprising ingredient — infant gas relief drops — may be contributing to the contamination of medical scopes nationwide and putting more patients at risk of infection, according to a small but ...

Ramat Gan, Israel-based GI View is hoping its single-use, self-propelled, 360 degree omni-directional Aer-O-Scope is going to change the way physicians perform colonoscopies. The Aer-O-Scope is the ...

Over-the-scope clip placement is a safe and effective therapy for the closure of gastrointestinal defects such as anastomotic leaks, fistulae and perforations, a new study shows. Clinical success was ...

In response to a series of superbug outbreaks around the country, some doctors and hospitals are trying out disposable scopes to combat the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. U.S. regulators ...

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 ...

Olympus today introduced the world's smallest gastrointestinal videoscope to offer four-way angulation and Narrow Band Imaging ™ (NBI) to detect upper gastrointestinal abnormalities. The super-slim ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iterative Scopes, a pioneer in precision-medicine technologies for gastroenterology, announced today that it has partnered with One GI®, a gastroenterology ...