How a medical device maker kept U.S. hospitals in the dark about deadly infections

Los Angeles Times | December 19, 2015 | 9:40 AM

Even as patients died and others were put at risk, Olympus Corp. continued to sell a popular medical device and failed to warn U.S. hospitals that the duodenoscopes were tied to dangerous infections, according to interviews with dozens of hospital officials, doctors, regulators and former Olympus employees.
After each outbreak -- including one at UCLA -- Olympus contended that its scopes did not cause the infections and blamed the hospitals for not cleaning them properly. The company treated each incident separately, failing to tell the hospitals that there were other cases.
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