As an infection preventionist in healthcare today, one of our biggest challenges is appropriately managing Clostridium Difficile – a colitis-causing bacteria that affects almost a half-million people ...

Healthcare waste segregation works when packaging makes the safest choice easy; mapping streams and designing clear cues cuts risk, cost and carbon without disrupting care.

Researchers sampled 197 reusable sharps containers for C. diff at processing facilities. The containers had high C. diff densities to allow researchers to investigate the efficacy of automated ...

In an April 18, 2008, Letter of Interpretation posted to OSHA's Web site Dec. 4, the agency addresses the placement of sharps containers in facilities and the requirement to ensure they are maintained ...

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/PRNewswire/ - BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego today announced that they have implemented an ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Government has shared tips on how to safely dispose of medical sharps, such as needles, syringes and lancets. “The safest way to dispose of sharps (needles, ...

EXETER — An Exeter area community "sharps" collection will take place Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 a.m.-noon, at in the Perry Building lobby on the Exeter Hospital Campus. Local residents may drop off sharps ...

This story was updated on March 30. Scroll down for the update. In the wake of an incident last month, in which a library custodian was pricked with a hypodermic needle at the Ballard library, the ...