The privacy curtains that separate care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, researchers said in Chicago this week. To avoid spreading those ...

For some, curtains are unnecessary or even undesirable, but for most, they are integral to providing privacy and helping to keep our homes warm in winter or cool in summer. Sheer curtains offer a way ...

New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 April) shows that contamination of privacy curtains ...

(CBS) Privacy may not be the only thing hospital curtains give patients. A new study suggests privacy curtains may be a source of infectious bacteria, including ...

The researchers took samples from areas where people hold curtains, which suggests increasing contamination resulted from direct contact. “We know that privacy curtains pose a high risk for ...

Patient privacy curtains in hospitals became increasingly contaminated with pathogens and most tested positive for MRSA after 21 days of being hung, according to findings published in the American ...

Contamination of patient privacy curtains with multidrug-resistant organisms is common, according to a study that will be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious ...

Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, according to new research published in the American ...

Hard-to-clean privacy curtains in hospitals and nursing homes worldwide may be contaminated with deadly drug-resistant bugs, according to findings to be presented Saturday at an infectious diseases ...