A study, published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, examined no-touch disinfection methods and their ability to reduce healthcare-associated infections. Researchers included 20 studies in ...

Robots are capable of all sorts of tasks to help better treat cancer: They connect oncologists to patients remotely, make incisions, staple them shut, deliver "nano" therapies--and they clean rooms.

Several recent studies have demonstrated that an automated ultraviolet-C (UV-C) device may be effective as an adjunctive method for disinfection of healthcare-associated pathogens including C.

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

The study protocol was approved by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center's research and development committee. There was no direct contact with human subjects in this study, therefore the hospital's ...