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 ...

Chad Campion, MD, of Memphis, Tenn.-based Campbell Clinic is taking the future of endoscopic spine education into his own hands. He launched a first-of-its kind endoscopic spine surgery fellowship for ...

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: ...

Duodenoscopes — a specific type of endoscope used in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedures — have been tied to numerous infections and even patient deaths at hospitals across the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Debbie Smoody expected a routine visit to Allegheny General Hospital in February 2015, when her mother was scheduled to undergo a specialized procedure in which a medical scope would be threaded down ...

He emphasized that this shouldn't impact people undergoing more routine procedures, such as a colonoscopy or esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), commonly performed on people who have frequent heartburn.