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 technician failed to complete one crucial step in the sterilizing process …
Public health authorities in Maine say the state’s sharp rise in hepatitis cases is continuing. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says the increase in cases of hepatitis B and C in the Pine Tree State can be …
A Nevada jury has ordered the state’s largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak. Two companies – both subsidiaries of publicly …
