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Executive summary - Current and emerging occupational safety and health (OSH) issues in the healthcare sector, including home and community care
This report gives an overview of the current and emerging OSH issues for health- and social care workers and how these affect their safety and health at work and influence the quality of care they provide. It combines a literature review and the responses received to a questionnaire sent to OSH experts in all Member States. The report highlights the challenges facing the sector, including ...
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Hospitals using EXPlasma
First in Gwangju/Jeonnam area Colorectal and Anal Gynecology Hospital. Special care for women begins. Today, I will introduce about H anti-surgery, a hospital specializing in women. ...
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Changes in the Executive Board of Dräger
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA / Changes in the Executive Board of Dräger processed and transmitted by Hugin AS. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Starting January 1, 2011, Dr. Carla Kriwet will be new member of the Executive Board for Marketing and Sales. Dr. Dieter Pruss is leaving the company on December 31, 2010 Lübeck - At its meeting on September 15, 2010, ...
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Ballast Netting at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Birmingham’s prestigious new Critical Care hospital called on Eco Environmental Services expertise to overcome a growing bird problem. Crows living around the site were picking up the large pebble ballast and mistaking the pebbles for food, dropping the stones from great height in an attempt to open them. Some of these stones fell onto the extensive glass atria on the site causing ...
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Vela Diagnostics Buys Great Basin Scientific
Adds 6 FDA Approved Products on a Medium Multiplexing Platform and Microbiology Know-how Enabling our Customers to Benefit from a New Sample-to-Result Solution Cost-Efficiently in Near Patient Care Setting; adds a Manufacturing and R&D site in Salt Lake City, UT, United States. Vela Diagnostics signed an agreement to acquire Great Basin Scientific’s assets and will take over their site ...
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ABLE organises Focus Groups
In November 2021, ABLE hosted two focus groups with members of our SCI community. The topic was the exoskeleton use at home. The groups were made up of 11 participants from the ABLE network who have a spinal cord injury and who had experience using exoskeletons for rehabilitation. The purpose of the focus groups was to gather experiences, insights, and suggestions from members of the ABLE ...
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7th Annual Africa Hospital Expansion Summit
Africa has made considerable progress in improving their health outcomes, despite all the different challenges encountered by the countries. Indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality improving by the day and showing the efforts of the Governments towards a healthier population. However, there is still a lot to do, since healthcare access in Africa is still constrained by criteria ...
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Addressing workplace safety and health in the healthcare sector will ensure high-quality patient care
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) publishes a report on current and emerging occupational safety and health (OSH) risks in the healthcare sector. An important feature of the report is its focus on a previously neglected area — home and community care. Health- and social care is one of the main sectors in Europe, employing approximately 10 % of the EU workforce, ...
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Evacuation equipment is resistant against hospital bacteria
Did you know that people with low immunity are more susceptible to hospital bacteria? They are so susceptible that this results in fatalities every year. Probably more than you expect. According to the Belgian Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), 8 people A DAY die from a deadly infection which they contract at the hospital. Worldwide it also still claims thousands of victims. More ...
By Tetcon
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University Hospitals Leuven & KU Leuven - BioXtreme Joint Clinical Trial Research Project
University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven and BioXtreme are proud to announce that they have agreed to conduct a joint clinical trial research project in the university’s facility in Leuven, Belgium. BioXtreme has developed a ground-breaking robotic device for motor-learning, based on innovative error enhancement technology for upper limb rehabilitation from stroke and other neurological ...
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Europe: Commission launches consultation on active & healthy ageing
The European Commission is seeking the views of public and private organisations, companies and individual citizens on how Europe could scale up innovation to meet the challenges of the ageing population in Europe, and in particular on a pilot European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on active and healthy ageing, as set out in the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative, presented on 6 October by Maire ...
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New and huge Al Adan Hospital Includes Cutting Edge Technology from Ecosir Group
After new expansion Al Adan Hospital will be one of the largest in the Middle East area, almost doubling in size to approx. 500.000 m2. The automatic waste and linen transfer system installed is latest healthcare technology from Ecosir Group. Succeeding in an international tender process is a great achievement for us and for Finnish healthcare technology exports, says Ecosir Group’s CEO ...
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Illinois Makes Hospital Acquired Infection Data Available
Earlier this month, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced updates to the state’s Hospital Report Card and Consumer Guide to Healthcare Website. The new updates include information about hospital acquired infection prevention and control staffing. According to Dr. Arnold, IDPH Director, “It is vital that consumers have a solid understanding about the quality of ...
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Ensuring Patients` Safety through CO₂ Monitoring
Leister Corporate, Axetris, Infrared Sources, Medical Axetris EMIRS50 - made for compact NDIR capnography sensors. Its compact size, high emission at 4.26μm and an integrated reflector that improves efficiency makes Axetris' infrared source EMIRS50 make the first choice when it comes to integrating it in capnography analyzers. Capnography is a non-invasive method that measures ...
By Axetris AG
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Heritage Provider Network, Regal Medical Group and Dr. Richard Merkin come to the aid of Pakistani flood victims
Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network is pleased to announce that the Regal Medical Group, part of the HPN family, has coordinated a fundraising effort through their employees for the flood victims in Pakistan. The monies raised will be donated through the Red Cross for the immediate relief to those affected in Pakistan. According to the UN, the floods have disrupted ...
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CDC Lists Antibiotic Resistance Threats in Puerto Rico and the Rest of the United States
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year and more than 35,000 people die as a result. In addition, nearly 223,900 people in the United States required hospital care for Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections and at least 12,800 people died from those infections as recently ...
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Kallyope Announces CEO Transition as Company Advances to its Next Stage of Growth
Kallyope Inc., a leading biotechnology company focused on identifying and pursuing novel therapeutics involving the gut-brain axis, today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Jay Galeota as President and he will succeed Nancy Thornberry as Chief Executive Officer by October 1, 2021. Mr. Galeota also joins the Kallyope Board of Directors. Ms. Thornberry will remain actively involved ...
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Saranas® Awarded Multiple Purchasing Contracts with Large Healthcare Systems
Saranas announces today the closing of the company’s two largest Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) contracts and agreements signed to date: CommonSpirit Health and the Department of Defense. CommonSpirit Health, encompassing all Catholic Health Initiative (CHI) and Dignity Health hospitals, has awarded Saranas a multi-year contract for the use of the Early Bird® Bleed Monitoring System ...
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Susie Pearn appointed Aurecon`s Health Expertise Leader
Susie Pearn began her involvement within the health sector over 20 years ago and is acknowledged for her insight and involvement across the industry. As Expertise Leader, Health, Susie brings a strategic mind set, the ability to deliver solutions and deep insight into the health sector – both from an operational and economic perspective. Susie's background is primarily in health project ...
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New Data Shows Heart Failure Treatment Guided by Daxor’s BVA-100 Lowers Hospital Length of Stay by 55%
Daxor Corporation (NYSE: DXR), the global leader in blood volume measurement technology, today announces new data validating the benefits of the Company’s BVA-100 diagnostic blood test in reducing hospital length of stay (LOS) for heart failure (HF) patients. Data were presented at the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) 2022 – which brought ...
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