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FDA Clears Vioguard Self-Sanitizing Keyboard

Vioguard™LLC announces that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s first product, the Vioguard self-sanitizing computer keyboard, for use in healthcare settings. The product is the first FDA-cleared computer keyboard to use the germicidal ...More

January 4, 2012

Posted in News

Princeton Community Hospital Integrates Advanced Technology Into its Patient-Care Program

Princeton Community Hospital has added the Tru-D SmartUVC™ Room Decontamination System to its arsenal of new technology that helps disinfect environmental surfaces in patient rooms and in operating room suites. Using traditional cleaning protocols, Princeton's dedicated ...More

November 21, 2011

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene

ICT Offers Special Report on Area Decontamination Technology

Suboptimal environmental cleaning in healthcare facilities has given rise to the development of new technologies such as vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) and UV germicidal light to supplement hygiene practices and help combat healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The ...More

November 10, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

New ASHRAE Handbook Features Chapter on Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recently released the 2011 ASHRAE Handbook – HVAC Applications. This reference book provides more than 60 chapters addressing a broad range of HVAC applications, including the latest ...More

July 28, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Germgard Lighting Demonstrates Two-Second, Bare- and Gloved-Hand Sterilization

Germgard Lighting announces it has developed, tested and confirmed by independent testing that a small UVC dispenser, specifically designed for sterilizing bare or gloved hands safely and quickly, achieves -6log10 inactivation of all relevant pathogens, including ...More

June 23, 2011

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene

UV-C Device Reduces Pathogens in Hospital Patient Rooms

Results of an eight-month hospital study, "Room Decontamination with UV Radiation," were published in the October 2010 issue of "Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology." The study evaluated the ability of an automated UV device, Tru-D, to ...More

December 10, 2010

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene

Light Technology to Combat Hospital Infections

A pioneering lighting system that can kill hospital superbugs – including MRSA and C.diff – has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The technology decontaminates the air and exposed surfaces by bathing them in a narrow ...More

November 15, 2010

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

Researcher Introduces a Novel In Vitro Model for Light-Induced Wound Healing

Today, during the 39th annual meeting of the American Association for Dental Research, convening in Washington, D.C., lead researcher C. Millan of the U.S. Army Dental Corps in Martinez, Ga., will present a poster of a study titled, "A Novel In Vitro Model for Light-Induced ...More

March 4, 2010

Posted in News

New Visible Light Photocatalyst Kills Bacteria, Even After Light Turned Off

In the battle against bacteria, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a powerful new weapon – an enhanced photocatalytic disinfection process that uses visible light to destroy harmful bacteria and viruses, even in the dark.Based upon a new ...More

January 19, 2010

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

Researchers Present Novel Environmental Disinfection Technology

In a study presented at the 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), researchers presented information about a mobile, automated UV device to decontaminate hospital rooms at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Ohio and ...More

October 12, 2009

Posted in News

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