Two days after a Senate committee released a report stating the manufacturer of 85 percent of endoscopes used in the United States knew the hard-to-clean reusable devices caused superbug infections, ...

Endoscope manufacturer Olympus raised prices on replacements for scopes linked to deadly infections, according to the Los Angeles Times. Last year, after physicians at the University of California in ...

SEATTLE (CN) - The maker of a medical scope accused of transmitting "superbug" infections due to a design defect countersued a Seattle hospital, claiming its employees failed to properly clean the ...

Theresa Bigler sued Olympus over the death of her 57-year-old husband, Richard, alleging he was infected by a contaminated scope. (Courtesy of the Bigler family) A Seattle judge said Olympus Corp.

A U.S. lawmaker is renewing his push for Congress to toughen requirements on medical-device warnings, calling Olympus Corp.’s 2013 decision against issuing a broad alert to U.S. hospitals about ...

Olympus had said its gastrointestinal scopes were safe and effective with proper cleaning and disinfection. At trial, the company said Virginia Mason was to blame for Bigler's infection because the ...

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A Seattle judge said Olympus Corp. failed to properly disclose internal emails that raised safety concerns about a redesigned medical scope as early as 2008, several years before the device was ...

A few years back, Olympus came under fire as its duodenoscope was tied to a series of outbreaks across the world in which patients were infected with potentially deadly bacteria. The company’s ...

Following the FDA’s successive clearances of new, reprocessing-conscious duodenoscope designs from Pentax Medical and Boston Scientific late last year, competitor Olympus Medical has now received a ...