The Latest Breaking News from ECRI

Forever Chemicals Are Inside Catheters and Heart Implants, and Federal Regulators See No Reason to Remove Them

The FDA added a PFAS FAQ for medical devices on Sept. 1, explaining why fluoropolymers in catheters and stents differ from PFAS in drinking water.

Medical Daily · Sep 2

China's Geely used 800 engineers and AI to create a modular EV manufacturing system; Ford is now applying it in Spain, aiming to slash development time and costs by half without building the system itself

For decades, Western automakers entered Chinese joint ventures primarily to secure access to local buyers. That dynamic has quietly inverted at Ford's manufacturing site in Valencia, Spain, where the American brand is adopting a modular manufacturing architecture engineered by Geely. Rather than spending billions of dollars and nearly four years…

The Economic Times · Aug 25

A Fake Eye Disease Called Bixonimania Fooled Four AI Chatbots and One Peer-Reviewed Journal

A researcher invented 'bixonimania' to test AI. Chatbots called it real, a peer-reviewed journal cited it, and the paper was retracted.

Medical Daily · Aug 13

Greece urged to address anti-LGBTQI+ discrimination and intolerance

Council of Europe report highlighted need to enhance equality rights for intersex children in particular

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. Yet there is a simple way to stop it

Four years ago, when Karen Giuliano went to a Boston hospital for hip replacement surgery, she was given a pale-pink bucket of toiletries issued to patients in many hospitals. Inside were tissues, bar soap, deodorant, toothpaste, and, without a doubt, the worst toothbrush she’d ever seen.

Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2022

Preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia

Unlike many infections that strike within hospitals, the federal government doesn’t require hospitals to report it

Salon · Jul 17, 2022

Widely used hospital gowns show signs of exposing workers to infection

Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed in recent and ongoing laboratory tests and may fall short of safety standards, leaving health care workers with a greater risk of infection than advertised.

Tribune News Service · Jul 11, 2022

Why the war in Ukraine might make root canals more difficult

Russia’s assault on Ukraine is being felt worldwide, and the U.S. health care system is not immune.

Tribune News Service · Jun 8, 2022

U.S. dentistry affected by war?

The disruption represents more turbulence for the U.S. health care system’s supply chain

Salon · Jun 5, 2022