New conference planned.

A new conference organized by EDANA, IN CONTROL!, will take place in the Andel's Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic March 20-21, 2006. IN CONTROL! is the first-ever conference dedicated to the issue of global infection prevention and the critical role of nonwovens in providing effective protection solutions for patients and hospital staff. The conference will include 16 papers from authoritative healthcare professionals and top-level industry speakers, including the World Health Organization, EORNA (European Operating Room Nurses Association), Eucomed (European Medical Technology Association), companies manufacturing single-use nonwoven medical devices and suppliers of nonwoven roll goods.

The complete program of IN CONTROL! is on EDANA's medical nonwovens website www.medeco.edana.org and on www.edana.org.