{"id":8246,"date":"2017-09-22T08:49:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2017-09-22T08:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:49:55","slug":"to-wage-war-on-superbugs-fda-clears-way-for-scope-with-a-disposable-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8246","title":{"rendered":"To Wage War On Superbugs, FDA Clears Way For Scope With A Disposable Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chad Terhune for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Seeking to prevent superbug outbreaks, federal health officials said they have approved the first gastrointestinal medical scope with a disposable cap for use in the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/fda-approves-scope-with-disposable-part-aimed-at-reducing-superbug-infections\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=56611878&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_0eIhBscRayT_f27K_aiyBxOHBw0lo7DE-BD2jSMLjMF5LdyZ5CcuPLXxT3Yi_-aU7kGfW1S6X5drEcXPUTTErvMpYrg&amp;_hsmi=56611878\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/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=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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