The California Department of Public Health announced Thursday that regulators are fining Redding’s Mercy Medical Center after a surgical team there left a medical sponge in a patient during surgery, ...

Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer and Jerry accidentally drop a Junior Mint into the open body of Elaine’s boyfriend? Yeah, this is kind of like that, but with medical sponges. Siemens ...

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The Safety-Sponge® System is currently used in more than 135 community, research and government hospitals across the U.S., including 6 of the 2011-2012 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals Honor ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a medical malpractice suit filed after a Rio man died when a medical sponge was left in his abdomen during surgery at a Madison hospital in 2003.