The Messe Düsseldorf Group is re-focusing their activities on the health market in Brazil and will organize the first MEDICAL FAIR BRASIL from May 5 – 8, 2020 at the Expo Center Norte in Sao Paulo. It will be an annual event. MEDICAL FAIR BRASIL is supported by and staged in cooperation with the Brazilian […]
The International Hospital Federation (IHF) announces the finalists of the 2019 IHF/Dr Kwang Tae Kim Grand Award and Excellence Awards in Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and Management in Healthcare, and Quality & Safety and Patient-centered Care. Following an extensive review by the panel of judges composed of health leaders from around the world, 27 top […]
When a Californian company founded by a U.S. veteran wounded in Afghanistan sought to register a new medical device this year, it turned to Europe before the United States. The European approvals system had long been quicker, the company said, but the introduction of new rules is changing all that. “Now it has flipped,” said […]
Health leaders and professionals from more than 40 countries will be in Oman on 6-9 November for the 43rd World Hospital Congress of the International Hospital Federation for in-depth discussions on people-centered health services in times of peace and crisis. The scientific sessions will bring up actionable ideas on how health services can be resilient […]
FUJIFILM SonoSite has announced the launch of a strategic relationship with Partners HealthCare to apply artificial intelligence to improve the utility and functionality of portable ultrasound. The two organizations will collaborate to enhance ultrasound technology with AI to enable clinicians to perform scans at the point-of-care, further expanding the accessibility of this technology for clinicians […]
A new study led by Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute has found that most patients entering hospital intensive care units (ICU) for non-brain-related injuries or ailments also suffer from some level of related cognitive dysfunction that currently goes undetected in most cases. Many patients spend time in the ICU for reasons that have […]
An observational study conducted in a French hospital showed that human contact was responsible for 90 percent of the spread of one species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to new patients, but less than 60 percent of the spread of a different species. Audrey Duval of the Versailles Saint Quentin University and Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, […]
Hand hygiene is a critical component of infection prevention in hospitals, but the unintended consequences include water splashing out of a sink to spread contaminants from dirty taps according to new research. Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System assessed eight different designs across four intensive care units to determine how dirty sinks and […]
New research has shown how surgical gowns used in hospitals are retaining superbug Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), even after being treated with the recommended amount of disinfectant. The research, led by the University of Plymouth, tested single-use hospital surgical gowns (made of polypropylene) that had been infected with three different strains of C. difficile, a […]
An emerging species of C. difficile, named clade A, was found to make up approximately 70 per cent of the samples taken from hospital patientsScientists have discovered that the gut-infecting bacterium C. difficile is evolving into two separate species, with one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, London […]
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