Several hospitals in the U.S. struggled with dirty, improperly cleaned scopes this year, prompting the ECRI Institute to, yet again; include the safety issue on the 2016 version of its annual list of ...

This article was written by Marc Esquenet, VP Research and Development, The RUHOF CORPORATION, U.S.A. Learn more about THE RUHOF CORPORATION here. The field of endoscopy encompasses a wide range of ...

Following a superbug outbreak involving three deaths, UCLA officials are planning to test a new scope-cleaning machine designed by a small Arizona company. The experiment could attract considerable ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has dropped a recall of about 2,800 scope-cleaning machines used at hospitals and clinics nationwide despite a finding by a top agency scientist last year that ...

Custom Ultrasonic scope-cleaning machines can cost $30,000 to $50,000 and typically take about 30 minutes to wash scopes with disinfectant following some manual cleaning. About 1,000 hospitals and ...

Six months ago, the FDA ruled that a machine tied to a dangerous superbug outbreak needed to be taken off the market to protect public health. However, the machine remains in use after FDA officials ...

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 ...

Doctors say it's still important to keep using them despite the slight risk. — -- The endoscopes allegedly responsible for a wave of "superbug" outbreaks had been redesigned in recent years in ...