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Washington state surgeons and the Strong for Surgery program have released standardized guidelines for pre-operative care in the form of pre-surgical checklists. Strong for Surgery is issuing a set of checklists and tools available to all surgeons to use in their...

The EPA has approved HypeWipe Bleach Towelettes for killing and/or inactivating Clostridium difficile spores on hard, non-porous surfaces in a four-minute contact time. The single-use, hospital-grade disinfecting towelettes are used for disinfection in numerous...

As health care grows more complex, there’s no shortage of specialty areas where today’s ambitious nurses could focus. What is most important is how a nurse zeroes in on a preferred specialty that can help fulfill his or her career goals. “There are many benefits to...

Ambulatory health care services led health care jobs creation in October, accounting for more than 80 percent of new health care jobs. Employers in the ambulatory sector added 25,000 of 31,000 total health care jobs created by U.S. employers that month, according to a...

After five years, the CABG group had a lower combined rate of strokes, heart attacks and deaths (18.7 percent) than the PCI group (26.6 percent). Adults with diabetes and multivessel coronary heart disease who underwent cardiac bypass surgery had better overall...