Jan
23

Much of the research effort around MRSA to date has focused primarily on hospitals, said Carmel Hughes, lead review author.
MRSA spreads easily — most commonly via the hands of health care workers — and first-line antibiotics, like penicillin, are ineffective against the organism. Nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable because infection with the bug tends [...]

Jan
20

J.V. Price Ltd really put to the test this time! With only 1 days notice and 8 days to complete JVP had to pull out all the stops. JVP had been asked by UK Cleaning Services to carry out a full internal and external glazing clean to the superstore, the glazing had not been cleaned [...]

Jan
20

A MODEST family house in Middlewich is home to a business that has swept the nation.
Elaine and Mike Hanrahan set up cleaning agency Maid2Clean from their home in Northwood Avenue 14 years ago and now employ 4,700 people and have 63 franchises up and down the country.
Elaine, 45, runs the business from their converted garage, [...]

Jan
20

Luxury Hotel expects to recoup over �100K in next five years by bringing its laundry in-house
Swinton Park, a 4 red star luxury hotel in North Yorkshire, has established its own in-house laundry using a full range of equipment sourced entirely from Girbau UK including washing machines with the JHC Laundry O-Clean ozone cleaning system. Previously [...]

Jan
20

Nilfisk-Advance is the exclusive product supply and support partner in a new industrial cleaning hire service being launched by Clean Sweep UK.
The product hire company is teaming up with Nilfisk-Advance to provide an all-inclusive machinery hire service to the cleaning sector, with same day delivery nationwide, full maintenance support by Nilfisk�s trained engineers and [...]

Jan
20

The Health %26 Safety Executive is reminding businesses - no matter where your ladder is being used - make sure it is up to the job and safe to use. As the Museum in Docklands gets one of its galleries ready for a new exhibition - London, Sugar and Slavery - HSE’s Programme Manager for [...]

Jan
19

Despite mating being a risky business for females %26ndash; not least with the threat of injury, sexually transmitted diseases and vulnerability to predators - polyandry (females taking multiple mates) is widespread in the animal kingdom.
Dr Stephen Cornell (Leeds) and Dr Tom Tregenza (Exeter) have shown that polyandry may have evolved as a survival technique [...]

Jan
19

For several years, ARS entomologist Bob Pfannenstiel has been studying predators that feed on the eggs of lepidopteran pests of annual crops. Pfannenstiel, who is in the Beneficial Insects Research Unit at Weslaco, Texas, does most of his work on cotton and the pests that plague it, such as bollworm and beet armyworm.
In the summer [...]

Jan
19

%26ldquo;We have put together recommendations for different age groups, but the material is more robust when it comes to women,%26rdquo; says Anders Raustorp, University of Kalmar, one of those taking the initiative for the study and director of the Swedish component. For women up to the age of 50 and for men, 10,000 steps a [...]

Jan
17

Most start-up companies have some of their biggest problems getting out of the starting blocks. Every young company struggles to find financing in its infancy. If you’re considering launching one, take a good look at a home equity loan as a funding source.
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