HealthDay News — Hospitals, clinics and health-care professionals should immediately stop using Other-Sonic Generic Ultrasound Transmission Gel due to risk of bacterial contamination in certain ...

By using sound waves instead of radiation, ultrasound can uncover subtle abnormalities that mammography may overlook.

Eco-Med Pharmaceuticals issued a recall Aug. 4 of several lots of its ultrasound gel after finding they were contaminated with the bacteria Burkholderia cepacia, which has caused at least 15 ...

U.S. Marshals, acting at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, have seized Pharmaceutical Innovations’ Other-Sonic Generic Ultrasound Transmission Gels after an FDA analysis found that ...

DermaRite expands recall due to Burkholderia cepacia bacterial infection risk, prompting an FDA warning to destroy their ...

Eco-Med Pharmaceuticals doesn’t know how some of its ultrasound gels got contaminated with the Burkholderia cepacia bacterial complex, but the Canadian company acknowledged the consequences can be ...

Sixty-six bacterial infections have been linked to an ultrasound gel that was recalled in August, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Applying ultrasound gel to a patient's hair prior to craniofacial or maxillofacial surgery can contain tresses and prevent hair from invading a surgical site, according to a short communication ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning hospitals to stop using an ultrasound gel produced in the second half of 2011 because it has been linked to at least 16 bacterial infections. The ...

A Canadian company has recalled some lots of its ultrasound gel after 15 people were sickened with a bacterial infection. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Eco-Med Pharmaceuticals ...

Getting a bandage to stick to your skin can sometimes be difficult, particularly if that skin is wet. This isn't a problem with an experimental new wound dressing however, which uses ...

(HealthDay News) – Hospitals, clinics, and health care professionals should immediately discontinue using Other-Sonic Generic Ultrasound Transmission Gel due to risk of bacterial contamination in ...