MOVING ANNOUNCEMENT
We have moved our hand hygiene blog to another location. Our new site will give the chance to comment our posts and search older posts easier. We hope that these changes will bring us closer.
196 – Semmelweis Day
2014.07.01.
Today we celebrate 196 years since Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, savior of mothers was born.
March 20, 1847 was the first official day that Semmelweis assumed his position as assistant physician in the maternity clinic in Vienna, Austria. Read more
HAI costs over $10 billion per year
2014.06.23.
The five most common infections that patients get after they’ve been admitted to the hospital cost the U.S. health care system almost $10 billion a year, a new study shows. Read more
10 dirtiest spots in your kitchen
2014.06.16.
“People think that the bathroom is the dirtiest place in their house,” says Cheryl Luptowski, a Home Safety Expert at the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), an independent public health and environmental organization. “When in fact the kitchen has the most germs.” Read more
Why using toilet seat liners is basically pointless
2014.06.13.
Dr. William Schaffner, infectious disease specialist, M.D., and professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, pointed out that liners may have more to do with providing comfort and reassurance to the user than actually doing anything to prevent disease. Read more
Bacteria transmission in airplane
2014.06.09.
Disease-causing bacteria can linger on surfaces commonly found in airplane cabins for days, even up to a week, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Read more
MRSA rates across USA
2014.06.06.
The rates of community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CO-MRSA) varied dramatically among academic medical centers in California, New York, Illinois and North Carolina, suggesting there is not a uniform change in the “national epidemic” of the “superbug” that has generated extensive public health concern over the past decade, according to a new study. Read more
Hand-in-Scan @ExhibIT
2014.05.29.
On Wednesday May the 28th, the Singapore Chinese Chamberof Commerce & Industry in collaboration with the Hungarian Foreign Trade Association organized the Exhib[IT] show, inviting innovative Hungarian companies to present their products to the Asian market. Hand-in-Scan was represented by Ágoston Sipos, our local sales director. Read more