Author: Erin Elizabeth

New data has shown that conventional laundering methods for hospital bedsheets can leave 60% of Clostridium difficile spores behind, thus increasing the risk of contaminating other bed linens and patients. RELATED STORY: This Hospital Prescribes Fresh Food From Its Own Organic Farm Senior author Katie Laird, Ph.D., head of the Infectious Disease Research Group, School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom said these finding might explain sporadic outbreaks of C difficile infections in hospitals but that further research is still necessary. These findings were published online on October 16th in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. “To...

(Editor’s note- we were asked by the creators of this story to share the piece and we do so with pride – Erin Elizabeth ..    By Claire Edwards, Editor & Trainer in Intercultural Writing, United Nations (1999-2017) The first eight months of WWII with no fighting was called The Phoney War. Using millimetre waves as a fifth-generation or 5G wireless communications technology is a phoney war of another kind. This phoney war is also silent, but this time shots are being fired – in the form of laser-like beams of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from banks of thousands of tiny antennas[1] – and...