{"id":3712,"date":"2016-07-27T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T12:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2016-07-27T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T12:17:43","slug":"congressman-decries-olympus-failure-to-warn-u-s-hospitals-about-tainted-scopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3712","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Decries Olympus\u2019 Failure To Warn U.S. Hospitals About Tainted Scopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chad Terhune for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>U.S. lawmaker is renewing his push for Congress to toughen requirements on medical-device warnings, calling Olympus Corp.\u2019s 2013 decision against issuing a broad alert to U.S. hospitals about scope-related superbug outbreaks \u201cdespicable.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/congressman-decries-olympus-failure-to-warn-u-s-hospitals-about-tainted-scopes\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=32143106&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_MDQDxLtJ8JPIupspi0Oh-nFutataSdSNRG7pKARuM9Y4iXO6N5ZQgQINNv2ry7cZj47qbloGNE69L2HtQOhRHd7JBjw&amp;_hsmi=32143106\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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