Antibiotic resistance -- United States
Olympus Corp. said it will voluntarily recall and redesign a troubled medical scope that has been linked to scores of potentially deadly patient infections around the world.
The company, which sells about 85 percent of the duodenoscopes used in the United States, said it will redesign an internal mechanism in the device that had been almost impossible to effectively disinfect.
A Senate report released this week said investigators had found 25 superbug outbreaks -- including 2 in Los
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