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Category: Ronald Reagan Medical Center (UCLA)

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UCLA, Cedars-Sinai Patients Were In “Immediate Jeopardy,” Says State

May 20, 2016 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

May 20, 2016 — California health officials last year declared patients at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center in “immediate jeopardy,” just weeks after the Los Angeles hospital publicly disclosed its deadly ‘superbug’ outbreak, according…

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A ‘Trickle-Down Effect’: The Potential Impact of the FDA’s Warning About Endoscope Safety on Automated Endoscope Reprocessors

Aug 21, 2015 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

August 19, 2015 — Late last week the FDA “warned” FujiFilm, Olympus and Pentax — the manufacturers of virtually every gastrointestinal endoscope used in the U.S. — for failing to comply…

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A 2015 ‘Superbug’ Outbreak in North Carolina: Were Contaminated Duodenoscopes to Blame?

Jul 16, 2015 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

June 15, 2015 — The Mountain Xpress, a local newspaper in Asheville (NC), reported earlier this week that two patients died in February at a hospital in North Carolina “from…

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