Hospitals are reusing one-time-use products. “The Food and Drug Administration regulates the practice, and many hospital administrators say reusing single-use devices is not only cost-effective but also promotes healthy competition with device makers and poses no threat to patients because the instruments are cleaned with such care that they are as good as new.”
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