State's Universities Pioneer Nanotechnology

Several higher educations institutions in Arkansas are making significant strides in a technology that could soon become a ubiquitous component of products ranging from bedsheets to brain implants...Read More Here

Device makers develop technologies for infection prevention

Medical-device companies are developing new technologies designed to prevent hospital-acquired infections in response to a reimbursement regulation being implemented by the CMS for such infections...Read More Here

Combating Hospital Acquired Infections

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs), also called nosocomial infections to better describe the range of places they can occur, have become a major health concern...Read More Here

Medical Device Innovation is Vital to Patient Safety

One out of every 20 hospital patients contracts a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) during their stay, resulting in approximately 2 million infections and 90,000 deaths each year, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...Read More Here

Arkansas Nanotechnology Projects Revolutionize Medicine

Some of medicine’s biggest problems are on the cusp of being solved by incredibly small-minded Arkansas scientists...Read More Here

Hospitals Now Must Report Serious Staph Cases to Officials

California for the first time is requiring that hospitals report to local health authorities certain kinds of staph infections that result in death or a stay in the intensive-care unit...Read More Here

Catapulting Arkansas Through Nanotechnology

For years, Georgia Tech University physics professor Uzi Landman has preached about the capacity for economic change courtesy of nanotechnology...Read More Here