The Harold and Kayrita Anderson Family Foundation

Hanger Inc, who partnered with the Harold and Kayrita Family Foundation to bring help, hope and healing to victims of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, is in the news with another inspiring story.

In 2005, a little dolphin named Winter lost her tail after a nearly-fatal encounter with a crab trap. In 2006, Kevin Carroll, vice president of prosthetics at Hanger and an expert prosthetist heard her story and took steps to restore her mobility with an artificial tail.

Read the full story at Hanger.com.

Physician’s for Peace receives $500,000 for amputee rehabilitation work in Haiti.

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Harold and Kayrita Anderson Family Foundation’s work with the Haitian Amputee Coalition highlighted by RRISA.

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Copper, brass and bronze registered as public health antimicrobial products that can control VRE, MRSA, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and E. col.

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NIH study suggests interfering with biofilm development could provide a way to stop the spread of biofilm-associated infection.

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Decoding the entire genetic instruction book of MRSA strains could provide a more complete picture of how infections spread.

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A pioneering lighting system that kills the superbugs breeding in hospitals has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

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Harold and Kayrita Anderson Family Foundation Chairman, Harold Anderson forges partnership with the largest maker of prosthetics and orthotics in the world to spur awareness, support and resources for earthquake survivors in Haiti.

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A hopeful study in the war against antibiotic resistance, biochemist in Cleveland in early trials have found evidence of compounds that, without killing bacteria like an antibiotic would, could render MRSA harmless.

Read more about the study here.