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 ...

Federal regulators shed more light on the potential harm to patients from a controversial medical scope, disclosing 142 reports of contaminated devices and possible patient infections since 2010. The ...

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 ...

An endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a procedure that lets a doctor diagnose and treat problems with your bile and pancreatic ducts. The ERCP procedure uses a combination of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Single-use duodenoscopes offered similar technical and safety outcomes in endoscopic retrograde ...

A multicenter clinical trial published in JAMA has found that a long-used endoscopic procedure does not prevent recurrent ...

Potentially deadly “superbug” infections like those spread by contaminated medical scopes at civilian hospitals in Seattle and elsewhere may have occurred at U.S. Veterans Affairs medical centers as ...

A Pasadena hospital is investigating a suspected outbreak related to the same type of medical scope tied to superbug infections across the country. Huntington Memorial Hospital said Wednesday it had ...

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: ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedures help diagnose and treat pancreatic or bile duct blockages. ERCP combines the benefits of gastrointestinal endoscopy and X-rays.