Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) announced today that the French Health Products Safety Agency, AFSSAPS, will approve the low-temperature hydrogen peroxide gas plasma STERRAD® NX? and the STERRAD® 100NX? Sterilization Systems for total inactivation of prions…
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UNISON, the UK’s leading public sector trade union, called on hospital managers to consult with staff to deliver improvements to services, after a survey revealed that nurses spend nearly four hours a week looking for missing equipment. Gail Adams, UNISON Head of Nursing, said: “If these stats are true, nurses are losing a […]
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Leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg paid tribute to nursing staff and their “skills, innovation and ideas” when he addressed members of the Royal College of Nursing at their annual Congress in Bournemouth. Mr Clegg told delegates: “”You should be telling us how to run it, not the other way around…
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Health care providers and educators nationwide who run youth smoking cessation programs now have access to a free toolkit to improve their programs. The toolkit, available for download at http://www.HYSQ.org, was developed by the Helping Young Smokers Quit, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation directed by University of Illinois at Chicago […]
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“As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins mark up today of the first foreign affairs authorization bill in five years, all eight living former U.S. Secretaries of State have written a letter [.pdf] urging Congress not to cut the international affairs budget,” Politico’s Laura Rozen writes on her blog…
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released the following statement today on WellPoint’s announcement that it intends to end the practice of rescinding patients’ coverage in advance of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurers stop this practice starting this fall…
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G8 countries should make use of low-cost, effective tools to prevent hunger, disease and premature deaths among women and children in developing countries, Bev Oda, Canada’s international cooperation minister, said on Tuesday at the opening of a meeting of G8 development ministers in Halifax, the Toronto Sun reports (Payton, 4/27)…
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The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has warned the Federal Government that it will need to be “extremely vigilant” to ensure some state governments don’t short-change rural hospitals and health services when allocating health funding from the single funding pool agreed to at the COAG meeting last week…
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A requirement to sell tobacco products in plain packaging is set to become law in Australia. This is a major advance in tobacco control as it will stop the industry misleading smokers. The Australian law could pave the way for similar bans in other countries including the UK…
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