Hygiene
News
Synergy Health partners Age UK East London to reduce infection– 10-May-2013
Donates a 12-month supply of Assure antimicrobial hand sanitiser to the charity
Infection control market will be worth US$14bn by 2017– 19-Mar-2013
North America is largest regional market, with Asia the growing fastest
Georgia-Pacific Professional and Versus Technology collaborate – 5-Mar-2013
They aim to improve hand hygiene in healthcare by introducing SafeHaven monitoring system
Lincor and Proventix form partnership to improve hand hygiene– 27-Feb-2013
Will integrate nGage and MEDIVista technologies
SafeBridge to merge with Trinity Consultants– 17-Dec-2012
Trinity Consultants plans to provide the resources to expand SafeBridge
Personalised feedback makes healthcare workers twice as likely to clean their hands– 25-Oct-2012
According to the three-year Feedback Intervention Trial (FIT)
Pure Hold Hygiene Handle helps keep bugs at bay– 15-Oct-2012
Tests in UK hospitals have shown a 30-fold increase in hand hygiene compliance
New handbook on cleaning cleanrooms published – 29-Aug-2012
The book is written for those working in both the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors
Optidose sanitiser technology optimises hand hygiene efficacy– 1-Jun-2012
Single dose solution based on data from more than 8 million hand hygiene events
Wipe study on disinfection of flexible nasendoscopes– 11-Apr-2012
The efficacy study on Tristel Wipes was revealed at the Hospital Hygiene Congress in Berlin
Byotrol agrees multi-country product deal with Rentokil – 25-Jul-2011
The deal promises to be a multi-million pound contract for the anti-microbial products developer
Opinion: Manning the barricades– 21-Apr-2011
Action must be taken soon to curb the spread of drug-resistant pathogens
Articles
Regeneration at a Dublin stem cell facility– 20-Jul-2010
The new Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation facility in Dublin, Ireland represents a major step forward for stem cell transplantation. Ronan Quinn, MD of the contractor ardmac, describes the build
University testing– 16-Oct-2003
The new Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre was recently opened by Sir David King, the Chief Government Scientist. Cleanroom Technology finds out more about the facility