TUCSON, Ariz., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- To protect doctors and patients, the medical profession has long been using sterile disposable scalpel blades, but until now, surgical nurses have been ...

Upon removal, it was confirmed to be the broken tip of a scalpel blade, according to the authority's 16th issue of Risk Alert, which did not say when or where the incident had occurred.

A team of medical practitioners at the Maragua Level 4 Hospital in Murang'a County have conducted a successful operation to retrieve a scalpel blade that was left in the abdomen of a 36-year-old woman ...