Six years after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs temporarily suspended services at its Fort Wayne, Ind.-based hospital for patient care issues, the hospital has unveiled a building addition for ...

Vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) failed to completely sterilize surgical tools 76 percent of the time when the tools were soiled with salts or blood and not cleaned prior to sterilization, according ...

NEW ORLEANS — Various methods are available for sterilizing surgical instruments to protect patients from toxic anterior segment syndrome and other infections, an expert said here. Barbara Ann Harmer, ...

Hospitals are not the cleanest of places. Even in the operating room where the greatest care is taken to create a sterile environment, too often the infectious culprits bacteria, viruses and even ...

Hospitals could soon face shortages of critical surgical tools because several plants that sterilize the equipment have been shut down, government health officials warn. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

Nearly 1,200 surgical patients may have been exposed to hepatitis, HIV and other infectious diseases due to a sterilization failure, a northern Indiana hospital says. A Goshen Hospital sterilization ...