The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

Yesterday, the FDA approved a medical device terminally sterilized by Noxilizer’s nitrogen dioxide sterilization process. Baltimore-based Noxilizer provides room-temperature sterilization technology, ...

Medical devices and supplies need to be carefully tracked throughout the entire product life cycles: from manufacturer (including sterilization) to storage, use and disposal. Medical devices and ...

A failure in a step of the sterilization process at a Birmingham, Ala., pharmacy is the likely cause of the infection that afflicted 19 patients in Alabama hospitals and resulted in nine deaths, ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of articles in which we will bring in an expert to address some of the misinformation we have read in various social ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of hospital equipment sterilization systems produced by Mentor-based STERIS for sanitizing N95 masks that many hospitals ...

Orthopedic and spine surgery patients at Denver-based Porter Adventist Hospital were at added risk for surgical site infections or exposure to hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV due to inadequate ...

Medical devices and supplies need to be carefully tracked throughout their entire product lifecycles: from manufacture (including sterilization) to storage, use and disposal. Fortunately, Fujitsu’s ...