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Medizone International Solution

Medizone International, Inc. (Dually Traded: OTCBB/OTCQB: MZEI) (http://medizoneint.com) It is anticipated that AsepticSure™ will be extremely cost effective, adaptable to virtually any situation anywhere and have a global reach. The AsepticSure™ hospital sterilization system is a portable, affordable, easily operated system that can be used by trained maintenance staff. It is placed in the center of the room to be cleaned. Vents and doors are then sealed with an easily and cleanly removable 3M-tape product. The AsepticSure™ equipment is turned on from outside of the room through a remote wireless computer interface. The room is filled with a unique and patented gas formula that is ozone (O3) based to specific humidity and charge strength. Following the charge period the sterilization process is remotely turned off and a separate technology is employed that restores the atmosphere inside the room to EPA standards. The entire process, start to finish, takes 80 to 90 minutes...

U.S. Congressional Hearings on Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria Threat to Public Health

Antibiotic Resistance and the Threat to Public Health Congressional Hearing: Subcommittee on Health Antibiotic Resistance and the Threat to Public Health Hearings – Subcommittee on Health Wednesday, 28 April 2010 13:02 The Subcommittee on Health held a hearing entitled “Antibiotic Resistance and the Threat to Public Health” on Wednesday, April 28, 2010. The hearing explored the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance and the effects it has on human health. Witnesses Thomas Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases MEMORANDUM April 26, 2010 To: Members of the Subcommittee on Health Fr: Committee on Energy and Commerce Staff Re: Subcommittee Hearing on Antibiotic Resistance On Wednesday, April 28, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing entitled “Antibiotic Resistance and the...

National Athletic Trainers’ Association MRSA Guidelines

United States : New guidelines to prevent MRSA outbreaks among athletes 26 June 2010 In June 2010 the National Athletic Trainers’ Association unveiled guidelines to prevent MRSA skin infections at its annual conference. A study of high school athletes in Nebraska found that the incidence of MRSA infections rose markedly between the 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Nebraska Department of Health Community Services. Among wrestlers, the incidence tripled, going from 19.6 per 10,000 students to 60.1. Among football players in the Nebraska study, published last year in the Journal of School Nursing, the incidence rose five times, from 5 per 10,000 players to 25 in 10,000. Guidelines: Discouraging the sharing of towels, gear, water bottles, hair clippers, and razors. Daily disinfection or laundering of sports equipment and clothing. Frequent hand-washing and showering. Encouraging athletes to check...

Serious Step Backwards In Hospital Reporting MRSA

What is Going On Here? CMS Won’t Require Hospitals to Submit CDC Data on MRSA Infections 10 May 2010 WASHINGTON, May 10 — The Health Forum issued the following news release: Responding to concerns about imposing a “severe burden” on hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 7, 2010, notified hospitals that it has reversed course and no longer is requiring them to submit to the Buccaneer Data Systems Clinical Data Abstraction Center data that theypreviously reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Methicillian-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in patients. CMS’ Office of Clinical Standards and Quality withdrew its April 29 requirement for the data, which it said was intended to help estimate the accuracy of MRSA data reported to CDC and to assess the “accuracy of medical record-abstracted information at a hospital level,...

Acinetobacter 300% Increase in Hospitals

DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA INVADE U.S. HOSPITALS A surge in drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter, a dangerous type of bacteria that is becoming increasingly common in U.S. hospitals, has been reported In a study published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. These infections attack patients in hospital intensive care units while also plaguing soldiers returning home from the Iraqi war. They often appear as severe pneumonias or bloodstream infections, and require strong drugs to be treated, when they can be stopped at all. Using data from hospitals around the country, researchers at Extending the Cure- a project of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Resources for the Future - analyzed trends in resistance to imipenem, an antibiotic often reserved as a last-line treatment The study found that in recent years, there has been a more than 300% increase in the proportion of Acinetobacter cases resistant to the drug. “The findings are troubling because...

Medizone International Solution

Medizone International, Inc. (Dually Traded: OTCBB/OTCQB: MZEI) (http://medizoneint.com) It is anticipated that AsepticSure™ will be extremely cost effective, adaptable to virtually any situation anywhere and have a global reach. The AsepticSure™ hospital sterilization system is a portable, affordable, easily operated system that can be used by trained maintenance staff. It is placed in...
U.S. Congressional Hearings on Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria Threat to Public Health

Antibiotic Resistance and the Threat to Public Health Congressional Hearing: Subcommittee on Health Antibiotic Resistance and the Threat to Public Health Hearings – Subcommittee on Health Wednesday, 28 April 2010 13:02 The Subcommittee on Health held a hearing entitled “Antibiotic Resistance and the Threat to Public Health” on Wednesday, April 28, 2010. The hearing explored...
National Athletic Trainers’ Association MRSA Guidelines

United States : New guidelines to prevent MRSA outbreaks among athletes 26 June 2010 In June 2010 the National Athletic Trainers’ Association unveiled guidelines to prevent MRSA skin infections at its annual conference. A study of high school athletes in Nebraska found that the incidence of MRSA infections rose markedly between the 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years, according to the federal...
Serious Step Backwards In Hospital Reporting MRSA

What is Going On Here? CMS Won’t Require Hospitals to Submit CDC Data on MRSA Infections 10 May 2010 WASHINGTON, May 10 — The Health Forum issued the following news release: Responding to concerns about imposing a “severe burden” on hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 7, 2010, notified hospitals that it has reversed course and no longer is...
Acinetobacter 300% Increase in Hospitals

DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA INVADE U.S. HOSPITALS A surge in drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter, a dangerous type of bacteria that is becoming increasingly common in U.S. hospitals, has been reported In a study published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. These infections attack patients in hospital intensive care units while also plaguing soldiers returning home from...