Playful therapy garments for children receive patent
...tation to Judy and Judy's children. "The prototype garments will not address the needs of all children with sensory integration dysfunction and impaired motor development, but other cases with similar dysfunction profiles may benefit from the resulting garment product," Haar wrote. Funded by KSU, she is conti...Cotton clothes carry fungal spores into hospitals
...tors cover their clothing with hospital--laundered garments and shoe covers before entering patients' rooms would significantly reduce the risk of infection. Such policies, Obendorf says, are currently not pervasive, standardized or enforced.......smaller, unharmful fragments." After a day's work, garments made by this process could be tossed in the washwithchlorine bleach. "The small fragments will be washed away during the regularlaundryprocess and, along with that, the active sites will be regenerated by thebleach," says Ko. In laboratory tests, tr...