Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis has canceled, delayed and transferred dozens of surgeries because of sterile processing issues with OR equipment, according to St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare, which ...

Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Medical Center and Lakeland Surgical & Diagnostic Center cancelled surgeries scheduled for Friday, July 25, after medical staff suspected that a surgical instrument may have ...

DENVER (CBS4)- A doctor is planning to sue Porter Adventist Hospital over an infection after undergoing hip surgery during the sterilization breach period. Dr. Melanie Green is a physician, but on ...

Up to 12,000 children and young adults treated at Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center since 2010 could be at risk of infection from surgical instruments that may not have been ...

Surgical site infection is the most common postoperative complication One in eight surgical site infection cases can be prevented by consistently changing gloves and surgical instruments during wound ...

Findings of the new study suggest that proteins linked to Alzheimer's disease could be transmitted through infected surgical instruments. In a study published in the journal Acta Neuropathologica, ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Officials at a North Carolina hospital say about 160 patients may have been exposed to staph infection because surgical instruments weren't properly sterilized. Officials at Cape ...