Lawrence Muscarella, a medical safety expert and president of LFM Healthcare Solutions in Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, offers the following advice for patients who may be scheduled for a ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a medical technique that is used primarily to investigate and treat pathologies involving the biliary tree and pancreatic ducts. Image Credit: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . On Feb. 18, the University of California, Los Angeles Health System notified 179 patients of potential exposure ...

GI Scientific LLC, a developer of transformative innovations for gastrointestinal disease, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared its ScopeSeal Duodenoscope Protective Device ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration is holding hearings Thursday and Friday about a medical scope that has been linked to deadly superbug outbreaks in the U.S. and Europe in recent years, potentially ...

Fixing or replacing faulty genes has emerged as a key to unlocking cures for numerous devastating diseases. But if the new, engineered genes can't find their way into the patient's genomic sequence, ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Officials at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena are investigating after some of its patients contracted an antibiotic-resistant "superbug." The resistant pseudomonas ...