Suppliers' Role in Achieving a More Sustainable Healthcare System
August 6th 2012As a healthcare professional, you are keenly aware of the need to keep patients healthy. Its a need that motivates you and drives you to continuously improve in your profession. Now its time we, as an industry, use that same kind of passion toward improving the healthcare system.
Material Management: A Q&A with Marilyn Conde
August 6th 2012ICT spoke with Marilyn Conde, CRCST, MAOM, FCS, manager of material management at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, Calif. and a member of the board of the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management (IAHCSMM).
'Green-Biased' Yellow Fever Swept Through Irish Immigrants in 19th Century U.S.
August 6th 2012New research by University of Warwick historian Dr. Tim Lockley has found why yellow fever had a green bias in 19th century fever outbreaks in the southern states of the U.S. Almost half of the 650 people killed by yellow fever in Savannah, Ga. in 1854 were Irish immigrants.