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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...