Karl J. Hemmerich is the manager of plant operations for STERIS Isomedix (Sandy, UT), and John Masefield is executive advisor to STERIS. Jerry R. Nelson, PhD, is director of Nelson Laboratories Inc.

A proposed AAMI/American National Standard provides specific requirements and guidance for using a sterilization process for healthcare products that could be adversely affected by more common ...

Medgadget reports on a recent award given to Conceptus for their Essure permanent birth control system. An Essure mico-insert is placed at the opening of the fallopian tube. It expands and anchors ...

Following the closures of contract sterilization facilities that prompted the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to alert to the potential for medical device shortages, the agency launched two ...