Even non-touch taps can harbour dangerous pathogens
USA - Urging public health and infection control officers to be proactive against Legionella and other waterborne microbes that contribute to soaring hospital infection rates
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Nosocomial infections
Nosocomial infections are all too common in our hospitals. For example, in Germany alone (according to the German Company for Hospital Hygiene - Deutsche Gesellschaft für
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Cardiac centre raises hygiene standards
Many hospitals pay more attention to complex hygiene solutions they do on another, simple solution: hand washing.
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An end to out-sourcing?
As MRSA affects about 300,000 patients and costs UK £1 billion annually, the country’s public services union demands the return of in-house cleaners. Peter Howieson reports
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Sharing the load
New to MEDICA this year is MLR, whose automated guided vehicles (AGV) have been radically modified transport containers in hospitals.
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Cheering up the wards
While bringing friends and loved ones flowers can cheer them up, dealing with the vases can cause headaches for care professionals.
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Accu-Chek® Combo – put effective diabetes management into action
At the annual congress of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) this year in Rome, Roche Diabetes Care introduced Accu-Chek Combo – the insulin pump system that combines an insulin pump with an intelligent glucose monitoring system, a bolus calculator, and an integrated pump remote-control.
Products redesigned to help patients simplify life with diabetes
Bayer HealthCare Diabetes Care unveiled the new
CONTOUR® blood glucose meter with enhanced testing features at the 44th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Rome, Italy.
Carestream: technical infrastructure for EU funded R-bay project
Carestream Health is a major technical infrastructure provider to the EU-funded R-Bay validation project, which aims to address the uneven spread of radiologists across member states. CARESTREAM Radiology and Information Management Solutions are driving the initial test platform for the project by facilitating remote reporting of images from hospitals in Denmark, Finland and Czech Republic by clinical providers in Estonia, Lithuania and the Netherlands.
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