Sterilization

Baxter

Baxter is one of the 30 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with annual sales of $7.8 billion. With a foot in both the pharmaceutical industry and medical devices, Baxter Healthcare has...

FlexStent system gains expanded 510(k) clearance

Flexible Stenting Solutions has obtained clearance from the FDA for additional sizes of FlexStent, the company's self-expandi -More- 

Medline's Sterilization Wrap Receives FDA Clearance for Compatability With 3 Sterilization Processes

Medline Industries, Inc.’s Gemini surgical instrument sterilization wrap recently received FDA 510(k) clearance for use in steam and STERRAD® Sterilization Systems, the company announces. With this...

FDA clears additional sizes of Flexible FlexStent Biliary Stent

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to Flexible Stenting Solutions' additional sizes of FlexStent Biliary Self-Expanding Stent system including 9 and 10mm diameters...

FSS’ FlexStent Iliac system receives CE Mark

Flexible Stenting Solutions, Inc., a leading developer of next generation peripheral arterial, venous, neurovascular and biliary stents, announced today that it has extended its CE Mark authorized fam...

VenBio’s Goodman Builds an Inside Periscope on Biotech Acquisitions

Veteran neuroscientist Corey Goodman says young life science entrepreneurs who want to launch startups often ask him for advice. Those aspiring biotechnology leaders might be surprised by what they he...

Cardinal Health DuraBlue Sterilization Wrap Gets New FDA Clearances

Cardinal Health announces that DuraBlue™ Sterilization Wrap received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for STERRAD® NX® and STERRAD® 100NX® Systems from Advanced Sterilization Product...

FSS Announces CE Mark for its FlexStent® Iliac Self Expanding Stent System

Flexible Stenting Solutions, Inc. (“FSS”), a leading developer of next generation peripheral arterial, venous, neurovascular and biliary stents, announced today that it has ex...

FlexStent® Biliary Self-Expanding Stent System receives FDA 510(k) SE Clearance Further Extending Family of FSS Products

Flexible Stenting Solutions, Inc. (“FSS”), a leading developer of next generation peripheral arterial, venous, neurovascular and biliary stents, announced today that it has re...

Implementing AORN Recommended Practices for Sterilization.

Any hospital or facility in which surgery and other invasive procedures are performed should have accommodations for cleaning, decontaminating, disinfecting, and sterilizing instruments, equipment, an...

Clinical issues-february 2011.

Calculating flash sterilization rates Key words: flash sterilization, benchmarking. Manual cleaning of instruments Key words: manual cleaning, instrument decontamination, instrument sterilization, ult...

Effect of Sterilization on Non-woven Polyethylene Terephthalate Fiber Structures for Vascular Grafts.

Non-woven polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibers produced via melt blowing and compounded into a 6 mm diameter 3D tubular scaffold were developed with artery matching mechanical properties. This wo...

Tubal Sterilization and Breast Cancer Incidence: Results From the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort and Meta-Analysis.

Tubal sterilization is a common form of contraception in the United States and is hypothesized to be associated with a lower risk of breast cancer. However, prior observational studies have reported i...

Molecular monitoring of Escherichia coli O157: H7 sterilization rate using qPCR and propidium monoazide treatment.

Propidium monoazide is a DNA-intercalating dye. PMA-qPCR has been reported as a novel method to detect live bacteria in complex samples. In this study, this method was used to monitor the sterilizatio...