The Oregon Patient Safety Commission offers free, downloadable resources for proper and safe reprocessing of endoscopes. The endoscope cleaning and reprocessing policy can serve as a template for ...

The following article is written by Matt Smith, marketing analyst for Healthmark Industries Co. Cross contamination from flexible endoscopes remains one most health technology-related hazards. Every ...

Fujifilm Healthcare Americas—the result of last fall’s combination of Fujifilm Medical Systems and the recently acquired Hitachi Healthcare Americas—has its five-year plan set. The Massachusetts-based ...

A newly designed endoscope, capable of providing sub-second polarized spectral images of tissue in vivo (in the body), allows physicians and surgeons to non-invasively survey and sample an entire area ...

Contaminated endoscopes are a persistent problem for the medical device industry and its regulators. Not only is it difficult for hospitals to reprocess or sterilize all sorts of endoscopes ...

BEIJING -- Jifu Medical, which has a capsule-size endoscope tool, has raised several hundred million yuan (several dozens of millions of dollars) in a Series C funding round.

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. The da Vinci system is probably the most popular surgical robot in the US, but it’s never been ...

The endoscope has been the go to tool for doctors that need to look inside the digestive tract of a patient since the 1980's. These things are generally long, black cables that are forced through the ...

Having a camera inserted into a bodily orifice isn’t most people’s idea of a good time. But this procedure, called an endoscopy, is commonly used by doctors to more accurately diagnose patients’ ...