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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.