Soft Hydrophilic Contact Lenses

Food Safety

Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avo...

Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip

Cleft means 'split' or 'separation', and in Cleft Palate and Lip, the palate and lip are split respectively. This occurs as a congenital abnormality because during development in the...

Bone morphogenetic protein rhBMP

Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (rhBMP-2) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for anterior lumbar interbody fusion and for acute open tibial fractures; rhBMP-7, on the other hand, is approved...

Vitamin K

Vitamin K is a group of 2-methilo-naphthoquinone derivatives. There are three notable forms of vitamin K; K1 which can be synthesized by plants, K2 which can be formed by natural bacteria in the int...

Holiday Inn Express in Reston, VA teams up with Global Soap Project

(PRWEB) May 14, 2013 The Holiday Inn Express Reston/Herndon has teamed up with the Global Soap Project to recycle used hotel soap from check out rooms to be reprocessed into usable soap for develop...

Feedback intervention improves hand hygiene compliance in modern hospitals

A major three-year trial led by researchers at UCL, in partnership with the Health Protection Agency, has shown that giving one-to-one feedback to healthcare workers makes them twice as likely to clea...

Nurses dress up as ‘soap stars’ for infection campaign

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has adopted an innovative method of encouraging good infection control techniques by transforming its nursing staff into some of TV’s most iconic s...

Health Tip: Remove a Splinter

-- Even if a splinter doesn't hurt, you should remove it properly without delay to prevent possible infection. The Nemours Foundation offers these suggestions for removing a splinter: Using soap and...

Old Spice Answers Call For “Manly”-Smelling Bar Soaps

Old Spice bars launch to guys looking for “masculine”-smelling soap. The rollout will be promoted with humorous television ads that pay tribute to soap commercials of the 1980s and 1990s, says the...

Soft Pretzel Favorite Auntie Anne's Hands Over Keys to a Franchise on A&E's New Real Life Series "Be the Boss"

LANCASTER, Pa., Nov. 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Auntie Anne's Pretzels, the iconic brand made famous by its fresh, hand-rolled treats, will be featured in the premiere season of A&E's new origi...

Contaminated Foaming Hand Soap Recalled Due to Dangerous Bacteria

Avmor Ltd. is voluntarily recalling one lot of its Antimicrobial Foaming Hand Soap (Triclosan 0.3%) due to microbial contamination. Product testing undertaken by Health Canada detected bacteria (Pseud...

Novel Alcohol-Free Hand Sanitizer Gets Hands Ready to Help Fight the Flu

Hands First, a non-alcohol hand sanitizer, that protects for 3 hours is the perfect solution for fighting the flu. Nixa, MO (PRWEB) September 26, 2012 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CD...

Observed hand cleanliness and other measures of handwashing behavior in rural Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: We analyzed data from the baseline assessment of a large intervention project to describe typical handwashing practices in rural Bangladesh, and compare measures of hand cleanlin...

Evaluation of antibacterial soap in the management of lymphoedema in Leogane, Haiti.

In areas endemic for lymphatic filariasis, progression of lymphoedema is associated with recurrent bacterial acute dermatolymphangioadenitis (ADLA). The role of antibacterial soap in preventing ADLA i...

Hands on or hands off the perineum: a survey of care of the perineum in labour (HOOPS).

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: There seems to be a temporal association between increasing use of "hands off" the perineum in labour and reduced use of episiotomy with an increasing rate of anal sphinct...

Effect of face washing with soap and water and cleaning with antiseptics on upper-lid bacteria of surgical eye patients.

Objective: To determine the effect of face washing with soap and water and cleaning with povidone iodine and cetrimide/chlorhexidine gluconate (Savlon) on upper-lid bacteria.Design: Prospective, nonra...

Doped soap membranes selectively permeate a chiral isomer.

Soap films can not only be made with sub-μm thickness, they can have intrinsic permeabilities comparable to many commercial membranes, permitting very high transmembrane flux. Soap films readily inco...