How ultraviolet light (UV) works as a disinfection technology depends upon the wavelength(s) being employed. The UVC band with a wavelength of 200-280nm has emerged as a viable solution for interior ...

SAN ANTONIO, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — To support improved patient outcomes and reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections, the Healthcare Standards Institute (HSI), an American National ...

As restaurants reopen, owners must assure guests that premises are safe from pathogens, given ongoing concerns about safety in public spaces. What tools are available to ensure a facility is safe from ...

Gear Clear Venting Systems are now available with a UVC Germicidal Light to assist in the further reduction of toxins that can harm firefighters when they leave the scene of an emergency. Gear Clear ...

While useful for killing pathogens including SARS-CoV-2, 222-nanometer UV lights may produce harmful compounds in indoor spaces, and should be used with ventilation, researchers have found. Many ...

Perhaps the first randomized trial of an air cleaning device for nursing homes showed no significant impact on the primary endpoint for acute respiratory infection incidence. A secondary analysis did, ...

Germicidal electrical equipment typically incorporates light to inactivate germs and viruses. It’s accomplished by producing light output in a range that may render microbes non-infectious at a ...

At Durham, N. C.’s Duke Hospital, Surgeon-in-Chief Julian Deryl Hart last week braced himself to answer a barrage of questions excited by a report in Modern Hospital concerning novel use of ...

Researchers with Hiroshima University in Japan have demonstrated that a UV light wavelength safe for use around humans is also capable of killing the virus that causes COVID-19. The newly published ...

In a paper published in the journal of Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, physicians from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine reported that several ...

Many efforts to reduce transmission of diseases like Covid-19 and the flu have focused on measures such as masking and isolation, but another useful approach is reducing the load of airborne pathogens ...