Salamtex, a textile manufacturing company in Egypt, has created a groundbreaking anti-microbial textile named ‘Guard Textiles’ providing protection against the transmission of infection in health care facilities, according to ...
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Walking around your local supermarket aisle should give you a clear indication that many brands need to up their game when it comes to catching the modern shopper’s eye. In the first part of my ‘Supermarket Sweep’ series, ...
Agropur Cooperative is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached, as of November 21, 2013, to acquire the assets of Fromagerie Damafro - including those of Fromagerie Clément - located in St-Damase, Quebec. Damafro is a ...
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Triple Insulating Glass Improves U-value and Solar Heat Gain Performance - Viracon has expanded its triple insulating glass sizes to 70 square feet, giving architects and building designers more options as energy codes become stricter. ...
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Waste-water treatment by-products, also known as sewage sludge, are frequently used as fertilizer. And that means whatever this stew of sewage leftovers contains, including substances hazardous to human and animal health, could potentially ...
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IntelligentMDx has secured clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for IMDx VanR for Abbott m2000 assay, an automated molecular diagnostic test that detects the presence of vanA and vanB genes associated with ...
The clothing worn by doctors and nursing staff plays an important role in breaking infection chains in healthcare systems. This has been shown in a study carried out in a hospital in Jerusalem (Israel) which examined the germ contamination ...
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MicuRx Pharmaceuticals has received a US patent from the USPTO covering the composition of its clinical candidate, MRX-I. The antibacterial oxazolidinone targets infections due to multi-drug resistant Gram-positive pathogens. MicuRx ...
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A first of its kind study conducted by the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine found standard control curtains were 8 times more likely to be contaminated with the superbug vancomycin resistant enterrococus (VRE) than experimental ...
Optics societies press Iran to release PhD student 12 Jun 2012 Letter co-signed by presidents of SPIE,OSA,EOS and ICO urges Iranian government to overturn Omid Kokabee's ten-year jail sentence. Omid Kokabee The presidents of four ...
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