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If you don’t have to wear a plain uniform, you’re faced with a sea of color choices and style options when you go scrubs shopping. Do you ever get confused about what goes with what?

We’re here to help you not only match your scrubs outfits, but we’re taking it a step further.

Consider this: The colors you wear can affect your mood and that of those around you.

Put the science of “color therapy” into practical use for your next scrubs shopping trip:

1. Sunny yellow.

DO wear white with a bright yellow top if you’re looking for a really fresh look. Yellow is considered a very energizing color that summons sunlight and optimism—maybe just what you’re looking for when you’ve got a long shift ahead of you!

DON’T mix too many bright colors. If you wear yellow, especially if it’s a brighter shade,

3M Introduces Littmann Electronic Stethoscope Model 3000 with Breakthrough Ambient Noise Reduction (ANR) Technology; Designed to Pick Up Difficult-To-Hear Heart and Lung Sounds While Offering Superior Acoustic Sensitivity

3M created the Littmann Electronic Stethoscope Model 3000 featuring amplification and proprietary ambient noise reduction (ANR) technology. The new Littmann Model 3000 has been proven to reduce ambient noise by an average of 75 percent without filtering out critical body sounds and offers amplification up to 18 times greater than the best acoustic stethoscope. This breakthrough technology represents a key milestone in the area of acoustic sensitivity that can be critical to proper clinical diagnosis and quality auscultation.

In recent controlled experiments, clinicians using the Littmann Model 3000 have picked up difficult-to-hear heart and lung sounds, while missing or misidentifying those same sounds with an acoustic (non-electronic) cardiology-grade

Reisterstown, MD – October 1, 2012—Redding Medical, a leading medical equipment and scrub retailer, announced today the redesign and launch of its website at www.reddingmedical.com.

The primary reason for the redesign was to provide greater functionality for their customers with product videos and documentation and live scrub feeds.

The site provides in-depth information about Redding's product line of stethoscopes, blood pressure units, scales, scrubs and medical diagnostic equipment.. The blog, which is regularly updated, is a popular feature of the site which highlights the latest in Stethoscope, Scrubs and Medical Equipment.

According to Sharon Shipe, CEO of Redding , “As we celebrate over 37 years of service to the health care field, we realize Redding Medical has grown to meet the demands of the medical professional by being committed

Starting With Hand Hygiene Practices Facilities in New Hand Hygiene Project See Compliance Increase From 48% to 81%

U.S. healthcare facilities are grossly underperformingin hand hygiene compliance, which could impact healthcare-associated infections and patient safety,said two of the world's foremost experts on infection prevention and hand hygiene.
Speaking last week before more than 200 healthcare leaders at a hand hygiene forum organized byLoyola University Medical Center and Medline Industries, Inc., at Loyola's Strich School of Medicine inMaywood, Ill., Professor Didier Pittet, MD, director of the infection control program at the University ofGeneva, Switzerland, and Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, president of The Joint Commission,cited time constraints, product misconceptions and faulty data as main reasons for the country's poorhand hygiene compliance, but also offered hope for improvement. 
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare

3M™ Innovation Littmann® Model 3200 Stethoscope Award

AS GOOD AS GOLD: 3M Mobile Projection Technology and Littmann® Model 3200 Stethoscope/Zargis Cardioscan™ Win Edison Awards

ST. PAUL, Minn. – 3M today announced it is the recipient of two Gold Awards at The Edison Best New Products Award gala, presented by Discovery Channel in New York City. The prestigious Gold Award is the top honor given by the Edison Award Steering Committee for product excellence in innovation, creativity and ingenuity, as demonstrated by inventor Thomas Alva Edison. As a leader in both the mobile interactive electronics and healthcare industries, 3M was recognized for its Mobile Projection Technology in the Technology category and Littmann Model 3200 stethoscope with Zargis Cardioscan software in the Electronics and Computers category, respectively.

The Power of Projection

As 3M’s most recent product to incorporate the diversified technology company’s

Cherokee Scrubs Top 5 Trends for Late Summer/Early Fall

1. World Adventure Collection - Hot on the heels of the Oscar award winning movie, “Slumdog Millionaire” our World Adventure Collection goes to India this innovative, exciting and unique to our industry and our Hello Bali print, featured in this silhouette, sports the newest print mixing trend.

1. Pleat It! Collection - Distinctive, elegant, yet subtle: the soft Neckline Pleats and a contrasting saddle stitched ribbon on the empire waist of this mock wrap top, create this exciting sophisticated new look.

1. Studio B Flex Appeal - The comfort and ease of flex gets dramatic with the introduction of Wathercolor Whimsey, and Geo Garden prints. The contrast of saturated deep, dark, intense colors mixed together with black and brights makes

Scrubs Mag: The Nurses Guide to Good Living

Cherokee Uniforms is pleased to introduce a new website that is dedicated to the personal and professional lives of nurses and the very specific joys and challenges they face. The website, Scrubsmag.com, offers career advice from nurses and nurse recruiters, inspirational stories, fun awards that nurses can send to friends, exclusive articles such as md vs. rn and our "how to deal" compendium of ideas for new nurses, beauty and scrubs fashion tips, relationship advice and much more - all researched and shaped with nurses in mind.

The site will feature current hot topics news articles like this month’s “What Nurses Can Tell Patients About Swine Flu” to read more about this public health safety resource here.

Please take a moment to browse through What Nurses Can Tell Patients About Swine Flu (N1H1 Virus)

Welch Allyn Introduces A Fast, All-inclusive Spot-check Device

Welch Allyn, a leading manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions, today introduced the Spot Vital Signs LXi, the industry's fastest multi-parameter spot-check device that can be customized for use in a variety of clinical settings. Its speed comes from Welch Allyn's proprietary SureBP(TM) blood pressure technology, which measures on inflation, taking accurate blood pressure readings in approximately 15 seconds--about half the time of any other spot-check device available today. Spot Vital Signs LXi offers the latest blood pressure, temperature, and SpO2 technology as well as a number of other features including manual weight, height, respiration rate, and pain level entry; connection to select digital weight scales; Body Mass Index (BMI) calculation; and connectivity to Electronic Medical Records (EMRs).

"In today's demanding healthcare environment providers don't have time to

3M™ Littmann® Counterfit Watch

It has come to our attention that counterfeit stethoscopes bearing the Littmann brand are being sold in the USA. While available at a lower cost than the genuine products, these stethoscopes deliver correspondingly poor performance.

To help clinicians be sure they are obtaining a genuine Littmann Stethoscope, all acoustic (non-electronic) stethoscopes with a 2007 lot code (or later) will carry a 3M Confirm™ Authentication Label with Floating Image Technology. This security label will be placed on the underside of every
primary box. (Also on the underside can be found the lot code sticker.)

The 3M Confirm label can be viewed best with a viewing tool, such as a doctor's ophthalmoscope or a light source held against the temple of the viewer. Such a tool is, however, not necessary. Either way, the viewer will see an image that appears to "float" above or "sink" below the surface of the label and then disappear as the

Welch Allyn Launches MacroView Otoscope

Skaneateles Falls, N.Y., ― Welch Allyn, a leading global manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions, today announced the launch of the MacroView(TM) Otoscope, a hand-held otoscope with an innovative new design that gives healthcare providers a panoramic view of the ear. Featuring 30 percent more magnification than traditional otoscopes, a nearly full view of the tympanic membrane, and an adjustable focusable eyepiece, the MacroView Otoscope can help healthcare providers to make faster, easier, and more accurate diagnostic decisions.

"The sleek new design and groundbreaking technology of the MacroView mark a major advancement in handheld otoscopy," said Cindy Kuiper, Welch Allyn product manager. "Healthcare providers now have a tool that actually makes an examination more precise and efficient without changing the way they already use conventional otoscopes. At this point, the MacroView