Medical News Today: Contaminated hospital floors may help to spread infection
Because they are not frequently touched surfaces, hospital floors are often excluded from efforts to improve disinfection. New research now questions this.
Because they are not frequently touched surfaces, hospital floors are often excluded from efforts to improve disinfection. New research now questions this.
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The Bank of Canada has held rates again at 0.50%, as virtually everyone had expected.
"Overall, recent data on the global and Canadian economics have been consistent with the Bank's projection of improving growth," the bank wrote in a short accompanying policy statement.
"In Canada, recent consumption and housing indicators suggest growth in the fourth quarter of 2016 may have been slightly stronger than expected," it added. "While there have been recent gains in employment... Читать дальше...
Malia Obama playfully smiled for photographers while arriving at Weinstein offices for her internship in Tribeca, New York City. Malia wore black tight pants accentuating her long legs paired with black boots and her favorite backpack. She looks like a runway model. Since she became the former “first family” daughter, the paps have not left […]
Читать дальше...There has been much speculation over the past few months about what the Vikings might decide to do with oft-injured defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd, who is entering the fifth and final year of his rookie contract. But as the deadline for that fifth year to become fully guaranteed nears, it appears as though that decision will be taken out of their hands. When the Vikings officially picked up Floyd’s fifth-year option last May, his base salary of nearly $6.8 million was only guaranteed for injury at that time... Читать дальше...
FETÖ'nün 15 Temmuz darbe girişimi sırasında Özel Kuvvetler Komutanlığını (ÖKK) ele geçirmeye teşebbüs etmek suçlamasıyla yargılanan sanıklardan Astsubay Bekir Kurt, FETÖ ile bağlantısı olduğunu itiraf...Devamı için tıklayınız
Lisa Kudrow was "laughing nonstop" at a recent dinner with "Friends" co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry.
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment.
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment.
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment.
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment.
ALMELO - Tweedeklassers van Het Noordik komen volgende week vrijdag 10 maart in actie tijdens NLdoet. In 22 groepen doen 155 leerlingen vrijwilligerswerk op diverse plekken in de stad.
In a bid to discourage cash transactions, from March 1, customers carrying out financial transactions at HDFC Bank branches will have to pay a fee if the number of transactions exceed beyond four.
The woolly mammoth has been extinct for more than 4000 years. Now scientists are talking about bringing it back with the help of a powerful gene-editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9.
University attorney Wendie Stabler says construction on the first building will begin later this spring and they hope to begin hosting students by September 2018. The university's Du Pont Highway campus near New Castle will remain the main campus and host top administrative offices.
In an interview with Sputnik Arabic, Muhammed Nadim al Shihabi, chief doctor of a hospital in Aleppo, specifically focused on how the ongoing civil war in his country has altered the work of Syria's surgeons.
The Contact Group on Ukraine agreed the withdrawal of banned heavy weaponry from the contact line in conflict-hit eastern Ukraine, according to a source.
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On Tuesday, YouTube unveiled YouTube TV, its $35-a-month competitor to cable TV, which delivers a package of streaming channels over the internet.
With YouTube TV, the company is jumping into an increasingly crowded market of services looking to lure cord-cutters and cord-nevers back to pay TV.
Dish’s Sling TV, AT&T’s DirecTV Now, and Sony’s Vue are already fighting it out, and Hulu will enter the fray in the next few months. Even Amazon is rumored to be working on its own TV package. Читать дальше...
The World Health Organization says it has noticed mutations in the bird flu virus now spreading in China, but says the risk of the disease spreading easily between people remains low. In a press briefing Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said in about 7 percent of the people infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, scientists have identified genetic changes suggesting the viruses are resistant to Tamiflu, the recommended treatment for the disease and the drug that is being stockpiled worldwide in preparation for a flu pandemic. Читать дальше...
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The Security and Exchanges Commission said on Wednesday it froze assets of traders using brokerage accounts in London and Singapore to obtain more than $3.6 million in possibly illegal profits before the announcement that SoftBank Group Corp agreed to acquire Fortress Investment Group.
"The SEC's emergency action to freeze the proceeds of the traders' highly suspicious transactions within days of the public announcement ensures that the profits cannot be removed from... Читать дальше...
The president's speech has investors in a bullish mood.
Allen Institute for Brain Science
For the first time, scientists have detected a giant neuron wrapped around the entire circumference of a mouse's brain, and it's so densely connected across both hemispheres, it could finally explain the origins of consciousness.
Using a new imaging technique, the team detected the giant neuron emanating from one of the best-connected regions in the brain, and say it could be coordinating signals from different areas to create conscious thought.
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Andy Grammer and his wife, Aijia Lise, are expecting their first child together – and they’ve revealed they’re having a baby girl! “It’s been really exciting because on both sides of our family it’s the first girl, so it’s fun because it’s happy news to everyone,” Aijia, who is five months pregnant, told People. “I [...]