HOUSTON – Equipment set up in part of Houston’s NRG Arena is helping to service N95 masks for healthcare workers to reuse. Battelle Memorial Institute’s Critical Care Decontamination System has been ...

Decontamination is defined as the process of removing or neutralizing a hazard from the environment, property, or life form. The principal objectives of this process are to prevent further harm and ...

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System has begun a pilot program to safely decontaminate N95 masks using equipment and a method developed by a team of VCU Health doctors and researchers. As ...

The main purpose of decontamination at a hazardous materials emergency is to limit the spread of contaminants from the release area, or "hot zone," to include the cleaning of responders and their ...

U.S. ARMY DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah -- Decontamination after a chemical or biological attack or incident can damage individual equipment. Most decontaminants are liquid and corrosive, applied with ...

New technology to disinfect N95 masks worn by health care workers is now in Nevada, but a major nurses union is questioning the effectiveness of the process. The Battelle Critical Care Decontamination ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The federal government is giving the green light to healthcare professionals to safely reuse N95 masks amid shortages of critical medical supplies needed to deal with the ...

(HealthDay News) — The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU) has implemented a thorough process for decontamination after treatment of patients with potential or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD), ...

Have you ever wondered how our brave soldiers deal with nasty stuff like chemical and biological weapons? Currently, it's a risky and time-consuming process. Soldiers have to suit up in cumbersome NBC ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Fort Leonard Wood personnel facilitated an operational assessment last week in Alaska, to look closer at dry-decontamination technologies and improve cold-weather care for ...

A new boat decontamination processes, new traffic patterns for visitors and two new buildings have been up and running at Lake Nighthorse since April, all of which work to create a more efficient ...