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With flu season officially underway on October 4th, Cantel Medical Corp., a company dedicated to infection prevention and control, recommends that Americans take extra precautions against spreading H1N1 influenza. Crosstex International, a subsidiary of Cantel Medical, is one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of face masks.
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it has entered into a joint technology development and marketing agreement with LinaTech, a leading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer with radiotherapy.
The new bug-smashing technique uses the bacteria's own natural enemies, tiny viruses called bacteriophages (or phages), which can infect bacterial cells. The phages make thousands of copies of themselves inside infected bacteria, but then need to dissolve the bacteria's cell wall to get out and infect other bacterial cells.
In related news, Politico Pro reports that five leading health systems announced a plan to partner in sharing electronic health records. These systems note that the ability to share patient data with EHRs is key to success in creating ACOs.
The UK's National Physical Laboratory is involved in a collaborative project that is helping to further the understanding of HIV viral protein structure which could lead to new molecular medicines.
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