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In a new study, investigators assessed the rate of bacterial contamination on 10 freshly laundered privacy curtains in the Regional Burns/Plastics Unit of the Health Services Center in Winnipeg, Canada.

The 64th annual Eagles Cancer Telethon raises nearly $1 million for cancer research during a two-day run featuring more than 100 area performers. … Rochester Mayo junior Makayla Pahl and Red Wing’s Taylor Heise are part of a powerhouse women’s hockey team that won gold at the U18 Women’s World Championships in Dmitrov, Russia.

After 66 years, Virgil’s Auto Clinic & Towing is out of gas — literally. The station, near Saint Marys Hospital, is getting out of the fuel business due to the cost of upgrades required for its pump equipment. … Mayo Clinic puts out an urgent call for blood donors, particularly Type A-positive and O-negative, as well as platelets. A recent surge of demand consumed about a week’s worth of blood in 24 hours; there is not enough blood on hand to deal with another unexpected surge.

The setting of care mattered, too. Sixty-two percent agreed or strongly agreed that when seeing patients in the hospital, doctors should wear a white coat, and 55 percent said the same for doctors seeing patients in an office setting. The percentage preferring a white coat fell to 44 percent for emergency physicians.

However, The Guardian learnt that a circular has been passed calling on the doctors to resume work because two months of the backlog salaries have been paid.

The second article in the series addressed the potential problem of clean HCTs becoming contaminated prior to use in a clinical setting.2 The point to be emphasized to C-suite members is that the multidisciplinary team members of the healthcare facility will work in cooperation with the laundry to help prevent such contamination from occurring, thereby maintaining HCT cleanliness quality during transportation and storage. IPs can also decide if sterilization of HCTs directed to severely at-risk patient care is appropriate and add this to facility policies and procedures.3

The impact of flame retardants (FRs) on the environment and human health has had a high profile for decades because of their persistence, bioaccumulative, carcinogenic and suspected endocrine disrupting properties. An additional concern that has gained prominence recently has been their capacity to kill and injure through toxic smoke, mainly generated by emissions of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide.

In the span of a generation, advances in science and technology have transformed the world. Seventy-five years after the first transistor was demonstrated, we carry smart phones that contain billions of transistors and are more powerful than a 1980s supercomputer. Sixty-five years after the structure of DNA was discovered, we can have our personal DNA analyzed for less than $100. Today, more than ever before, the United States’ economic prosperity and national security rests upon its capacity for continued scientific and technological innovation. That capacity depends on our ability to ensuring that all Americans have lifelong access to high-quality education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Hideo Nakata’s cursed-videotape saga made its North American premiere bearing only modest buzz. But the film (based on Koji Suzuki’s novel) built an atmosphere of shuddery dread among the packed house as reporter Reiko (Nanako Matsushima) set out to learn the truth behind the VHS cassette bearing a bizarre montage that dooms its viewers to die seven days after watching it. Then came the punch line: The vengeful spirit of a deceased young girl named Sadako, presumed to have been dispelled by the discovery of her body, appears on a TV set watched by Reiko’s ex-husband Ryuji (Hiroyuki Sanada) … and then crawls out of the screen and into reality, giving Ryuji — and everyone in that theater — a heart attack. Little did anyone know at the time that Sadako was also creeping her way into horror history, establishing in one supremely shivery scene that “J-horror” would be a force to be reckoned with. She received an English-language analogue in the surprisingly good U.S. remake The Ring and inspired a legion of long-black-haired Asian ghost girls, spooking and startling their way through movies in both Asia and America, the most successful of which were Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-on: The Grudge franchise. —MG

Directed by Rupert Julian and, uncredited, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, and Edward Sedgwick; screenplay by, uncredited, Walter Anthony, Elliott J. Clawson, Bernard McConville, Frank M. McCormack, Tom Reed, Raymond L. Schrock, Jasper Spearing, Richard Wallace

This is something that many new parents aren’t aware of, but having a baby clippers and nail file in your diaper bag is a must. I would even advise having it handy before you even leave the hospital with a newborn. My husband and I used mittens on our little one to avoid her scratching herself, but she didn’t really like them, and I was really wishing we had a file to file her nails down.

He said: "Hotels generally do not use fitted sheets, as fitted sheets are difficult to handle when cleaning, drying and folding. Instead, hotels use flat sheets, which can easy be processed by machinery for automated drying and folding in large numbers.