Scientists warn that a dangerous superbug capable of digesting medical plastic is silently spreading through hospitals, ...

Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time—and some of nature's tiniest organisms may ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in ...

Rising demand for infection prevention drives growth in the global anti-biofilm wound dressing market, advancing wound care ...

(Courtesy: Pedro Amado and Cornel Dillinger) When implanted medical devices like urinary stents and catheters get clogged with biofilms, the usual solution is to take them out and replace them with ...

Moreover, the researchers found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa can use broken-down plastic fragments to form tougher biofilms—coatings ... "It also means that any medical device or treatment ...

Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean ... and flush out substances stuck to the devices. Crystallized compounds and a sticky ...

More information: Pedro Amado et al, Ultrasound-activated cilia for biofilm control in indwelling medical devices, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.

It's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of eradicating such films, however, using tiny remote-control liquid ...

It would be expected that such materials, by preventing biofilm formation and hence ... innovative breakthroughs in the fight against medical-device-associated infections. Such materials can ...

TOLEDO, Ohio, March 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NAMSA, a leading US based MedTech testing, clinical and regulatory consulting firm, announced that it finalized its acquisition of WuXi AppTec’s US medical ...