The World Antibiotic Awareness Week takes place this year on 14-20 November and aims to raise awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which is now widely considered as one of the biggest threats to human health globally. In 35 years, antimicrobial resistance is expected to kill 10 million people globally. In comparison, 8...
The Days of Molecular Medicine (DMM) 2016 meeting titled “Bugs to Bedside to Biotech” took place on October 27 – 28 at the Karolinska Institutet this past week. The meeting highlighted the interface of new technologies to fight the next generation of infective agents, pandemics and superbugs being created by the over-use of antibiotics. The...
This week is the annual International Infection Prevention Week (IIPW), , and aims to raise awareness of the role infection prevention plays in improving patient safety. IIPW is organized by the US-based Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) which is the leading professional association for infection...
Winners of the 2016 Bactiguard Research Award for infection-related research were announced at the Urology Days conference which took place in Jönköping last week. The winners were Anna Messing Eriksson from the Urological Clinic at Karolinska University Hospital and Dr Jon Forsberg from the Urology Clinic in Östergötland University Hospital...
On 21 September 2016, the United Nations General Assembly passed a historic declaration to fight antimicrobial resistance. All 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly have agreed to fight drug-resistant bacteria which are estimated to kill more than 700,000 people annually. The President of the UN General Assembly convened a...
World Sepsis Day, on September 13, is a collaborative project organized by the Global Sepsis Alliance and relevant non-governmental stakeholders with the aim of raising awareness on one of the most common yet least-recognized illnesses. Sepsis is the main cause of death from infection and kills more people than cancer in the developed world.[1]...
Bactiguard and BioInteractions have received a European research grant aimed at developing a new generation of vascular access catheters, with new bio-smart materials for medical devices. The technology will be developed in a joint project with BioInteractions, UK and Bactiguard, financed by VINNOVA and Innovate UK. Some of the most serious...
About three hundred urologists visited Bactiguard’s booth at EAU, Europe’s biggest congress for doctors specialized in urology. Several of them expressed a great need for a solution reducing the number of catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), which often occur when patients are using a urinary catheter for a longer time. During...
The healthcare costs in Colombia are increasing and the need for infection control, such as Bactiguard’s infection preventive solution, is becoming a more prioritized area. In February Bactiguard and Business Sweden jointly visited Colombia aiming to network and establish relationships with decision makers and potential customers in the...
The Minister of Enterprise and Innovation Mr. Mikael Damberg and the Mayor of Botkyrka Mrs. Ebba Östlin inaugurates the new headquarter and production facility in Botkyrka on March 23 at 16.00 CET. The entourage will get an exclusive tour of the facility by the innovator behind the Bactiguard technology, Billy Södervall and CEO CHristian Kinch....
The annual World Kidney Day is arranged on March 10, to increase awareness about the chronic kidney disease, which is a worldwide disease affecting millions of patients. In connection to this, the newspaper The Parliament Magazine has published several articles about kidney diseases, including a presentation the DIREKT project, also involving...
Bactiguard won a tender, to supply urinary tract catheters to the Swedish region Halland. This means that Halland is able to start to purchase Bactiguard’s Infection Protection Foley catheters from 1 October 2016. ”In the past year we have been working methodically to demonstrate the value of our technology and our infection prevention urinary...
For the ninth year in a row Bactiguard exhibited at one of the world’s largest conferences for the healthcare sector and made a great impression on the Ministry of Health in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). ”Arab Health is an important platform for us, where we can meet our distributors and suppliers and at the same time establish new contacts...
A laboratory study, recently published in the Journal of Biomedical Material, by scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Bactiguard, shows that Bactiguard’s coating may reduce the risk of a thrombosis. A previous clinical study shows that Bactiguard’s Infection Protection central venous catheters reduce the number of bloodstream infections by...
Following the Chinese approval of Bactiguard’s Foley catheters for infection prevention, which was recently announced, the company has received an initial order of 100,000 catheters. In January 2016, the doors were opened to China, one of the largest and fastest growing markets in the world, with the approval of the company’s Foley catheter...
