• Israeli Scientist Discovers Mad Cow Marker in Urine
    JERUSALEM, Israel-Ruth Gabizon, MD, has reportedly discovered a marker that others have been hunting for more than 20 years. The Israeli scientist, from Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, has found a protein molecule in the urine of people and animals infected with ...More
    July 18, 2001
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  • San Francisco Health Officials Try New Approach at Preventing STDs
    SAN FRANCISCO, Calif-The city of San Francisco is known for the Golden Gate Bridge, great sour dough bread, and a prominent homosexual community, among other things. Health officials hoping a new campaign will prevent "a hot bed for sexually transmitted diseases" from ...More
    July 18, 2001
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  • Restaurants Required To Have Food Police in Singapore
    Singapore-Health officials in the Asian Island of Singapore have ordered all restaurants and caterers to appoint and train a Food Hygiene Officer (FHO). The FHO will watch over the preparation of food to prevent food-borne illness. There has been a sharp increase in the ...More
    July 16, 2001
    Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene, Hand Hygiene
  • US News & World Report Releases Top Hospital List
    WASHINGTON, DC-US News & World Report has published their list of "honor roll" American hospitals. The top ten listed are as follows: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Jay Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland UCLA ...More
    July 16, 2001
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  • Scientists Determine Ebola, Marburg's Point of Infection
    NEW YORK-A team of scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, along with another group from the University of California, San Francisco, have determined how the lethal Ebola and Marbury viruses enter a human cell. Viruses usually creep into a human ...More
    July 16, 2001
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  • Metrex Acquires OBF Technologies
    ORANGE, Calif-Sybron Dental Specialties, Inc. has announced that a subsidiary has acquired OBF Technologies of Downers Grove, Illinois. Metrex Research Corporation has acquired the company specifically for OBF's product line used in the management of biohazardous and ...More
    July 16, 2001
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    July 16, 2001
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  • Staph Swaps Genes
    WASHINGTON, DC-The leading health threat to hospitals and patients is a master of disguise. Staphylococcus aureus, more commonly known as Staph bacteria, has been found to swap genes with other bacteria to resist antibiotics. A new report in the Proceedings of the National ...More
    July 12, 2001
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  • Healthcare Workers Strike in Ecuador
    GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador-More than 100 nurses and doctors marching on the streets of the large port city of Guayaquil. Although police fired tear gas in an attempt to scatter the group, they continued their procession toward the government palace. It wasn't until riot police ...More
    July 12, 2001
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  • WHO, Publishers Team To Provide Medical Journals for Developing Countries
    LONDON-The World Health Organization is working with the world's six largest medical journal publishers to bring the latest medical information to developing nations. Medical journals tend to be expensive, with some of the more predominant journals asking $1500 for an ...More
    July 12, 2001
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