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For health care facilities, one goal is paramount: to provide optimal patient care, comfort, and safety.  Yet at the same time, hospitals need to keep a sharp eye on costs, particularly as expenses increase and reimbursements decrease.  One area where this dual mandate – and pressure – is readily apparent is in air filtration.   Clean, healthful indoor air is essential to keeping infect...

If you go to your local hospital’s emergency room (ER) it’s probably because of an accident, serious illness or other healthcare crisis. You have enough going on and don’t want to contract an infection from the hospital or those around you. Hospitals can take many precautions to prevent infections, one of them is keeping the air patients, visitors and staff breathe as healthy as possible wi...

It is the ‘invisible’ problem in sports: poor indoor air quality (IAQ) that can negatively affect the performance of athletes.  And it is a problem of particular concern in Rio de Janeiro, the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympic games, which has experienced significant air quality issues in recent years.   To help minimize the impact of pollution on Sweden’s delegation to the games, Ca...

SUMMARY: Camfil explains how optimized air filtration can be an easy ‘energy win’ for businesses.  Among its key – and for many readers, perhaps, surprising – findings are the following:   With high-efficiency air filters in place, a building’s energy costs can be significantly reduced – and indoor air quality improved   In the average commercial building, roughly half of all energy...

Researchers have discovered there is a link between being exposed to auto emissions and an increased risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A study conducted by Swedish researchers at Umeå University found that individuals who live in homes that are exposed to air pollution have a 40 percent higher risk of developing these conditions than people who live in areas with signific...

The steps required of a number of large companies to maintain the high quality of their HVAC systems may come at a price, but failing to do so always comes at an even higher one in the long run, according to clean air solutions provider Camfil. A number of companies seek to reduce costs by waiting to change building air filters until after the recommended time, or engaging in other actions ...

The numbers are staggering today – and they are only going to grow.  Across the globe, more than 3 million people die each year due to air pollution.  But a new study forecasts that by 2050, the figure will more than double, with 6.6 million deaths traceable to prolonged exposure to polluted air.   In the study – published in September by the journal Nature – researchers in Germany, the...

As the global leader in clean air solutions, Camfil has long been active in all facets of indoor air quality—and in getting the word out to end users about the technologies, standards, and techniques that can help them in their business.  In a pair of new white papers, Camfil builds on this tradition to educate customers on the selection and application of molecular filtration technologies—...

WASHINGTON, N.C., (August 28, 2015) – Camfil – the world’s leading provider of clean air solutions – announces the securing of its largest multi-year sales contract by its Washington, North Carolina production site. The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) being constructed in Manhattan, Kansas will be the nation's foremost animal disease research facility.   The biosafety lev...

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/researchers-between-air-quality-alzheimers-130600928.html As scientists learn more about the consequences of air pollution, the list of health risks have been growing.  Asthma and other respiratory diseases, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases have long been the top worries, but researchers in Sweden have now added a new – and equally troubling – cond...