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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. The Food and Drug Administration has dropped a recall of some 2,800 ...

Just months after the Food and Drug Administration reiterated its November recall of Custom Ultrasonics’ automated endoscope reprocessors, the federal agency dropped the recall, saying the product can ...

The U.S. Air Force notified 135 patients who underwent colonoscopy or endoscopy procedures between April 2008 and April 2016 at Qatar-based Al Udeid Air Base that providers may have treated them with ...