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...

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...

Archeologists unearth new information on origins of Maya civilization

The Maya civilization is well-known for its elaborate temples, sophisticated writing system, and mathematical and astronomical developments, yet the civilization's origins remain something of a myster...

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...

Medline's Gemini Sterilization Wrap Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Compatibility With Steam and STERRAD(R) Sterilization Systems

MUNDELEIN, Ill., Feb. 27, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medline Industries, Inc.'s Gemini surgical instrument sterilization wrap recently received FDA 510(k) clearance for use in steam and STERRAD® Steri...

Vacuum sterilizer ADV for porous loads and liquid products

The sterilizer ADV of Bosch Packaging Technology is suited for vacuum sterilization of porous loads, as well as for sterilization of liquids according to the steam/air mixture process. The combination...

Conceptus(R) to Highlight Expert OB/GYN Committee's Recommendation That Hysteroscopic Sterilization Become "Best Practice" for Female Sterilization at 41st AAGL Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS), developer of the Essure® procedure, the most effective permanent birth control method available1, will highligh...

Seminar to Help Medical Device Manufacturers Validate Sterilization, Cleaning Processes

A seminar on microbiology quality control, designed to help medical device manufacturers validate sterilization and cleaning processes, and maintain controlled environments, will be presented by Micro...

FDA clears Kimberly-Clark's sterilization wraps

The FDA has given Kimberly-Clark Health Care the go-ahead to sell its KIMGUARD ONE-STEP line of sterilization wraps.  -More- 

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...

Early ceremonial constructions at Ceibal, Guatemala, and the origins of lowland Maya civilization.

The spread of plaza-pyramid complexes across southern Mesoamerica during the early Middle Preclassic period (1000 to 700 BCE) provides critical information regarding the origins of lowland Maya civili...