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Why are hospitals banning antimicrobials, but not copper?

Copper and Our Innate Immune System

Effective R: The R We Can Affect

Thankful For: Frontline Workers

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics (Part 2)

A few years ago, the first rumblings were starting over the use, and possible overuse, of antimicrobials in interior furnishings and materials. As ...

We spend a good amount of time on this blog discussing the new uses of the biocidal properties of copper. We look to the past civilizations that used...

In population science, R stands for how much a population is reproducing. If R is greater than 1, it's growing. If it is 1, it's stable. If it's...

Perhaps nothing brought our world together in a more joyful way than hearing cities across the planet shout, bang pots and pans, and honk horns to...

Last week, we began our comparison of how New York City responded to a global pandemic a century apart. This week, we continue the comparison, this...

Imagine you are a physician doing rounds in a hospital. You and a colleague walk into the room of a patient infected with MRSA. You are careful to...

In November of 1918, a New York City subway car crashed in Flatbush, Brooklyn, killing 100 passengers and injuring 250 others. Photos of the wreckage...

Two important news articles this week took a long look at nursing homes. One examined the deadly impact of the pandemic on vulnerable nursing home...

When the cases of COVID-19 started to explode in the spring of 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) suspended reporting of...

Imagine a wandering nomadic tribe, toiling by day to find enough food to survive, sleeping only in short bursts in attempts to avoid predators. One...

As weather in the Northern Hemisphere gets cooler, our flu season begins. While social distancing and mask-wearing has kept the flu season at reduced...

There are may different pathogens that cause HAIs. Researchers have studied which of these infectious agents tend to cause infections, how those...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

Why are hospitals banning antimicrobials, but not copper?

Copper and Our Innate Immune System

Effective R: The R We Can Affect

Thankful For: Frontline Workers

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics (Part 2)

Why are hospitals banning antimicrobials, but not copper?

Copper and Our Innate Immune System

Effective R: The R We Can Affect

Thankful For: Frontline Workers

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics (Part 2)

You'll Never Look At A Bedrail The Same Way Again.

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics

The Future of Nursing Homes: The Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond

HAIs In The Time of COVID-19

Bacteria's 3 Real Estate Requirements (and only one of them is LOCATION)

3 Ways to Get Ready for the "Twindemic": Flu & COVID-19

Pathogen, Persistence, and Prevalence