LOS ANGELES --A $500 million lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark Corp. alleges the company falsely claimed its surgical gowns protected against Ebola and other infectious diseases. The suit, filed ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A $500 million lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark Corp. alleges the company falsely claimed its surgical gowns protected against Ebola and other infectious diseases. The suit, filed ...

The rise of new pathogens and drug-resistant organisms, combined with an industrywide effort to reduce healthcare-associated infections, is driving hospitals to reevaluate surgical gown protocols to ...

New pathogens and drug-resistant organisms, combined with an emphasis on reducing healthcare-associated infections, influence the need for hospitals to reevaluate gown purchasing decisions to optimize ...

Scientists have succeeded in developing a safe and easy self-donning and self-adjusting surgical gown called 'Selfgown,' which could also minimize environmental infection from splashes when taking off ...

Nov. 28—ROCHESTER — Modern operating rooms are bristling with more and more technology today, which led one surgeon attempting to keep equipment organized to introduce a very old innovation into the ...

If you’ve ever undergone surgery, you understand how chaotic the operating theater can be. During both of my C-sections, I remember a tiny room crammed with half a dozen nurses, lab techs, and doctors ...

Avanos Medical Inc., a multi-national medical supplies company based in the U.S., has paid $22 million over misbranded surgical gowns that promised more protection than they actually provided. Between ...

When the patriarch of a Boston-area family was diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer, the family was told he needed to start treatment immediately. But at the first oncology appointment at ...