Olympus Corp., the maker of medical scopes linked to recent deadly superbug outbreaks, reversed course Thursday and said it was issuing an urgent update on how the device should be cleaned. Under fire ...

Industry giant Olympus was ordered to pay damages to the hospital where a patient died of an infection linked to a contaminated scope. Jurors also found the hospital negligent, and it was ordered to ...

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The affected EUS scope was immediately returned to Olympus, which took apart, disinfected and re-cultured the scope before sending it back to LVHN, Burger said. In addition to Olympus, she said, the ...

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 ...

Olympus Corp. said Friday that it would voluntarily recall and redesign a troubled medical scope that has been linked to deadly patient infections around the world. The company, which sells about 85% ...

Olympus Corp. voluntarily recalled its troubled medical scopes Friday on the same day it received federal approval for a redesigned device the company and regulators hope will end outbreaks of deadly ...

A jury ordered the giant medical scope maker Olympus Corp. to pay a Seattle hospital $6.6 million in damages tied to a deadly superbug outbreak -- and told the hospital to pay $1 million to a deceased ...