Adoption of the pen disinfection tool has expanded from medical office settings into public offices and even casinos on the Cherokee Indian

Two germ-fighting inventions that were years in the making are now in demand since the COVID pandemic began. Matt Dibble has a look. This...

There's always been a certain ickiness to a community pen. Whether tethered to a tiny chain at the bank or attached to a clipboard at the...

How Steri-Write uses cutting-edge sanitation tech to clean pens used in healthcare settings When you sign in at the doctor’s office, have...

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Dr. Brian Wind, an ophthalmologist with offices in North Canton and Massillon, seemed to have perfect timing. A device he began working...

Health professionals and their medical equipment have long been known to act as vectors of infectious diseases.

Jerome Berkman wrote about the ‘community pen’ as a potential health hazard in relation to outbreaks of communicable diseases. “The...

Mobile phones and writing pens of health care worker can harbor nosocomial microorganisms. Cross sectional study was done to find out microo

In this study, “36 pens were tested from six wards affected with MRSA, and 9 of them (25%) were contaminated by the pathogen. The...

“100 writing pens used by health care workers were screened for the presence of bacteria. Result: Bacteria were isolated from 53 pens of...

Productivity Losses Related to the Common Cold, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, September 2002; 44(9):822-9...