Ask the treatment expert … about identifying pressure ulcers
By
Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Jun 01, 2013
How do you deal with the age-old question “Is it a pressure ulcer or not?” Many healthcare professionals are frequently faced with the dilemma of how to document a reddened area on the buttocks,...
Enrich Senior Living launched
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 09, 2019
Real estate investment firm 29th Street Capital and senior living developer Solinity have partnered to acquire assets under a new brand, Enrich Senior Living.
Medline receives NAHCA endorsement for Skintegrity
Jun 16, 2015
Medline Industries Inc. has received a National Association of Health Care Assistants endorsement for its holistic skin health program called Skintegrity ™.
Physicians warn of delayed skin reactions to COVID vaccine
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 08, 2021
Clinicians should be aware of injection-site reactions that may occur about a week after receiving Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine and which may be confused with skin infection, say physicians from Massachusetts...
CMS issues warning about Clarcon hand sanitizer products
Jun 23, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continues to warn healthcare workers to avoid using skin-sanitizing products manufactured by Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory. The bacteria found in...
Making needles less painful
Apr 04, 2011
People often fail to notice mosquito bites. Yet hypodermic needle injections generally cause a sharp pain. This oddity was not lost on Japanese researchers at Kansai University in Osaka. They recently...
FDA approves drug to treat MRSA skin infections
May 27, 2014
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Dalvance (dalbavancin), an antibacterial drug used to treat adults with bacterial skin and skin structure infections. Among them are infections caused by Staphylococcus...
Making space for clinical trials in long-term care
Jun 01, 2022
Principle CEO Lynn Hood, Principle COO Joylin Nation and Tyler Miller of Care Access to learn what it takes to make a drug trial partnership work — and why the success of such initiatives matters not...
Adhesive introduced for specialty products
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 06, 2019
DowDuPont Specialty Products Division has created a new DOW CORNING™ MG 7-1020 Soft Skin Adhesive.
SkinIntegra Skincare donating repair cream for SNFs, others
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 17, 2020
SkinIntegra, a skincare line designed to repair depleted and cracked skin, is donating samples of its Rapid Crack Repair Cream to healthcare facilities in California, Arizona, New York and Pennsylvania....