Reporting from washington — Under fire for selling a medical scope linked to superbug outbreaks, Olympus Corp. is pushing back against its critics and says the design of its product isn’t necessarily ...

A superbug outbreak at a foreign health facility has been linked to Olympus-made duodenoscopes that were recently redesigned to prevent such infections, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the U.S.

In the wake of two dozen infections in French and Dutch hospitals in 2013, Olympus notified European customers that their duodenoscopes could become contaminated. This spurred concern from Laura ...

SEATTLE -- Three executives from Japan loom large in a cramped courtroom here -- at least their photos do, mounted on a white poster board propped in front of the jury. "They were the key ...

Dr. David Feinberg, then president of the UCLA Health System, right, takes questions from the media outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles in February 2015. At left, is Dr.

A U.S. lawmaker is renewing his push for Congress to toughen requirements on medical-device warnings, calling Olympus Corp.’s 2013 decision against issuing a broad alert to U.S. hospitals about ...

Olympus Corp. issued a statement defending its duodenoscopes after a piece from The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists tied contaminated scopes to more than 190 superbug infections, ...

Olympus Corp. said Friday that it would voluntarily recall and redesign a troubled medical scope that has been linked to deadly patient infections around the world. The company, which sells about 85% ...

Washington state jurors ordered Olympus Corp. to pay Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center $6.6 million after a patient contracted an infection because of an improperly cleaned Olympus ...

Medical experts, health officials, lawmakers and patients' families have pinned much of the blame for the UCLA superbug outbreak and others across the country on Olympus Corp. and its gastrointestinal ...

A Seattle judge said Olympus Corp. failed to properly disclose internal emails that raised safety concerns about a redesigned medical scope as early as 2008, several years before the device was ...