Industry giant Olympus is the subject of both a civil suit and a criminal probe over its role in superbug infections caused by tainted medical scopes manufactured by the company. (Kiyoshi ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- Soon after doctors at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center traced deadly infections to tainted medical scopes last year, they pressed the device maker to lend them replacements. But ...

The timeline of events appears to show U.S. regulators stuck between a rock and a hard place as unclean scopes resulted in deadly superbug outbreaks that led to a major recall, not to mention an ...

Olympus has introduced the GIF-XP180N scope, the world’s smallest gastrointestinal videoscope to offer four-way angulation and Narrow Band Imaging to detect upper GI abnormalities, according to an ...

The hunt for a deadly superbug that sickened 22 patients at a Dutch hospital began just before noon on a spring day in 2012. Inside a lab in the tiny hamlet of Zoeterwoude, a technician carefully ...

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 ...