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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has championed International Infection Prevention Week since 1986. For 2024, the annual event is taking place from October 13th to the 19th. International Infection Prevention Week highlights the importance of infection prevention professionals and their efforts and control practices. These are crucial tasks as the ...
An article published last year in Emerging Infectious Diseases detailed a notable increase of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) infections in New York City during 2021 through June of 2022. The data for the study came from a large public healthcare system in New York City that serves more than 1.2 million people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
Fungal Disease Awareness Week (FDAW) kicks off today and runs through the 22nd. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created FDAW to highlight the importance of recognizing, treating, and preventing serious fungal diseases. According to the CDC: Many people are affected by fungal diseases at different points in their lives, whether dealing with a somewhat common ringworm ...
Biotech and genomics companies Longenesis and Dante Genomics launch more personalised genomic services to more than 10,000 people across the Baltics and Italy, thus expanding and bridging the reach of valuable health insight delivery to patients across Europe. Latvian Biotechnology startup Longenesis has partnered with Dante Genomics, a global company of genomics and precision medicine, to offer ...
Preventive care is close to my heart. My father died from leukemia when I was 26 years old, and, like many, he only believed in seeing a healthcare provider when he was sick. An annual wellness exam and a simple blood test may have caught his cancer earlier and extended his life. Something so simple, yet many don’t take the time to do. I think about my dad a lot in my career as a ...
The Toronto-based research reports a decrease of viral infectivity of 90% of SARS-CoV-2 patient samples using Ondine’s nasal antimicrobial photodynamic disinfection (aPDT), with 70% of patient samples completely inactivated from a single 5-minute treatment. The nose is the primary location for SARS-CoV-2 entry and it has a central role in transmission and disease severity. The Journal ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory Network (AR Lab Network) in all 50 states back in 2016. It was designed to help detect new forms of drug resistance from germs like bacteria and fungi that develop the ability to defeat the drugs that were designed to kill them. Drug resistance has become a growing concern, especially in ...
“Today’s memorandum of understanding signing with the Kingdom demonstrates our company’s commitment to transform the quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability of healthcare around the globe. We are excited for rapid expansion in the region and are impressed with the Kingdom’s speed in adopting artificial intelligence to prevent ...
Women’s health platform Skrinings.lv announced today that it has partnered with multinational pharmaceutical company Gedeon Richter to launch a completely private educational platform that empowers people to make informed decisions about contraception and other birth control options. In the first two months of operations, more than 1,700 women across Northern and Western Europe have taken ...
World TB Day is recognized in Puerto Rico and across the globe on March 24th. The date of this annual event was chosen to coincide with the date that Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis (TB), back in 1882. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes World TB Day as a time to educate the public about the impact of TB ...
Preventive healthcare start-up Sky Labs has opened its UK online store to enable customers to buy its innovative smart ring device. Fashionable, discreet and stylish, the CART-I (Cardio Tracker) ring uses advanced technology to consistently monitor the wearer’s heartbeat. The wearable technology is comfortable and easy to use and can become an integrated part of the buyer’s ...
BySky Labs
Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., inventors of Steripath®, the only FDA 510(k)-cleared device platform indicated to reduce blood culture contamination for sepsis testing1, commended U.S. Representatives Mike Levin (D-CA), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and eight of their colleagues for sending a joint, bipartisan letter urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within ...
NEVE ILAN, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2021-- NANO-X IMAGING LTD ("Nanox" or the "Company," Nasdaq: NNOX), an innovative medical imaging technology company, today announced the completion of its previously announced merger with Zebra Medical Vision, Ltd., a deep-learning medical imaging analytics company, in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $110 million at closing, with up to $84 ...
This week, Consorci Corporació Sanitari Parc Taulí hospital in Barcelona, Spain received the UVD Robot no. 200 donated via the European Commission’s Emergency Support Instruments. In the last couple of years, the corona virus has caused a huge impact all across Europe. UVD Robots and Blue Ocean Robotics - the manufacturer of the autonomous disinfecting robot equipped with ...
In the last couple of years, the corona virus has caused a huge impact all across Europe. UVD Robots and Blue Ocean Robotics - the manufacturer of the autonomous disinfecting robot equipped with UV-C light - was selected by the European Commission, as a supplier for its autonomous disinfection robots to European Union hospitals in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 known as Coronavirus. Each year ...
Bagdasar-Arsenie Hospital in Romania has received UVD Robot number 100 of the total of 200 fully autonomous disinfection robots the European Commission have purchased to its member states. As the second wave of Coronavirus cases surged across Europe in the fall of 2020, UVD Robots and Blue Ocean Robotics - the manufacturer of the autonomous disinfecting robot equipped with UV-C light - was ...
Dr Louis-Philippe Vézina Dr Véronique Gomord (respectively CEO and CSO of Angany), and Pr. Rogier W. Sanders and Dr Marit van Gils of University Medical Centers in Amsterdam (Amsterdam UMC) announce today significant advances made in the accelerated development of a preventive and curative product based on highly potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (NAbs) against the ...
ORLANDO, FL – February 11, 2021 – AVRA Medical Robotics, Inc. (“AVRA” or “the Company”) (OTCMKTS: AVMR) today issued the following update letter by its CEO, Barry Cohen to shareholders and the investment community: Dear AVRA Shareholder, As 2020 began, all things seemed pretty much as usual: we were fresh from the holidays and positively charged with optimism ...
The disruptive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on medical services has been a central concern across our industry. The global health strategy, backed by guidance from the National Institutes of Health and World Health Organization, has so far focused on flattening the epidemiological curve. By doing so, we’ll prevent healthcare services, resources, and medical staff from being overwhelmed. ...
Last night, four winners were honored from ten finalists and almost 400 nominees during the 2020 Wisconsin Innovation Awards which was broadcast live from Milwaukee. The ceremony, emceed by Wisconsin local Denise Thomas, President at The Effective Communication Coach, LLC, recognized the state’s most innovative products and services. The 2020 winners were selected by a panel of 30 expert ...