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March 2008 - Posts
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More than 8,000 GP practices will have to register with a new health and social care inspectorate to show they meet minimum safety and quality standards, the government has announced. At present, private...
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The new British standard (BS) for business continuity is set to become an international standard, driven by demand for supply chain security as global interdependencies increase, says IBM. Robin Gaddum...
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Adopt an integrated enterprise-wide cure for your quality management ailments Highly publicized recalls, ever-increasing regulatory oversight, and skyrocketing customer demand for quality products have...
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Operator error in liquid handling can be minimised with effective training. Handling liquid is one of the most common processes in life science laboratories, whether they’re drug-discovery and compound...
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To support the take-up of the new business continuity standard BS25999, IT Governance Limited has published Business Continuity and BS25999: A Combined Glossary as a new addition to its Pocket Guide series...
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Thousands of hospital operations are being called off because surgical instruments are dirty, missing or broken. In some cases anaesthetised patients have been woken up and returned to the ward, says the...
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On Wednesday the Supreme Court sided with medical device makers; delivering an 8-1 decision in favor not allowing patients injured by an FDA approved medical device to file lawsuit against the manufacturer...
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The head of Britain's drug regulatory body appealed to pharmaceutical companies yesterday to recognise they have an ethical duty to alert consumers to the dangers of their products. Speaking in the...
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It has been a little over a year since the revised laboratory accreditation standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005 came into effect. However, confusion still exists over the differences between accreditation and...
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Is your heart healthy? It's a good time to check because February is American Heart Month. Nearly 1 in 3 Americans has high blood pressure and many don't even know it.* Left uncontrolled, the condition...
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People could be putting their health at risk by trusting advice from friends and family more than scientists, reveals a new survey. Many of us are more likely to believe what relatives and pals say than...
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The collision of two 747 airliners on the runway at Tenerife in 1977 in which 583 people died is one of the worst disasters in air transport history. In 2006 a Boeing 737 collided with a Legacy jet over...
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