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A study in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, compared the virus-spreading capabilities of three different hand-drying technologies, and found that jet-air dryers spread 60 times more germs into the air than their counterparts, Dark Daily reports.

In a proof-of-concept study, Boston-based Harvard Medical School researchers have nearly completed recoding the Escherichia coli bacterium to work with a new genetic code.

In the second quarter of 2016, The Joint Commission reviewed 439 sentinel events.

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Surgery centers continually strive to provide patients optimal care, but sometimes complications arise following a procedure that staff personnel cannot prevent. However, some complications are within a surgery center's control and may completely change a patient's life if centers don't…

From 2016 to 2022, the global hospital acquired disease testing market is expected to continue expanding, a Credence Research report found, according to Run Direct Magazine.

Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Joint Genome Institute's David Paez Espino, PhD, and his colleagues studied viruses' "global distribution, phylogenetic diversity, and host specificity," according to ResearchGate. Dr. Espino and his team examined more than five Tb of metagenomics sequence data from…

JAMA Professionalism published an article highlighting key ways for physicians to disclose medical errors.

Valeritas, a medical technology company in Bridgewater, N.J., named Erick J. Lucera its new CFO, according to NJBIZ.

Earlier this year, an antibiotic resistant E. coli strain infected the second U.S. patient, leaving many to worry about antibiotics' effectiveness in combating serious infections.