For healthcare professionals, ensuring medical devices are clean, functional and stored in a sterile environment is crucial for keeping patients and staff safe from harmful bacteria. In particular, ...

The study scope is limited to sterilization devices and services within healthcare facilities. The focus on reducing hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) has ushered stronger sterilization methods to ...

A sterilization technician at a northern Indiana hospital failed to properly disinfect surgical tools, possibly affecting more than 1,000 patients who underwent surgery at the facility in recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UPDATE: The Midland Memorial Hospital announced Tuesday that the facility remains on diversion of all trauma surgeries as crews ...

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