Reused Insulin Pen Infection Warning Expands to 2nd New York Hospital
Another New York hospital has been found to have been reusing insulin pens on different patients, potentially exposing them to blood borne diseases like hepatitis C and HIV.
Another New York hospital has been found to have been reusing insulin pens on different patients, potentially exposing them to blood borne diseases like hepatitis C and HIV.
A Veterans Administration Center in Buffalo, New York hay have exposed more than 700 patients to a potential risk of bloodborne diseases by reusing insulin pens on multiple people.
Federal health experts are urging health care professionals to make more extensive use of blunt-tip suture needles in some operations to avoid the risk of sticking themselves accidentally and exposing…
An Alabama man has filed a lawsuit against LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, alleging that he developed an HIV infection after receiving tainted blood during surgery.
New label warnings are being added to the hepatitis C drug Victrelis by federal health officials, who indicate that combining it with certain HIV drugs may cause both treatments to…
Federal drug regulators are warning that combining the hepatitis C drug Victrelis with medications from a family of HIV drugs, which includes Norvir, Reyataz, Prezista and Kaletra, may result in…
Unhappy with the slow pace of improvements at a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital in Miami, where thousands of veterans were exposed to unsterilized colonoscopy equipment in 2009, lawmakers are calling…
Federal health officials have drafted new recommendations to prevent the transmission of infections and disease through organ transplant surgery.
Thousands of patients treated at a medical clinic in Madison, Wisconsin may have been exposed to a risk of HIV, hepatitis or other blood-borne diseases while a nurse was training…