MRSA - Spider Bites: The Flesh-Eating Bacterial Epidemic That Threatens America
Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and unfailing bactericidal cocktails.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Two prototype devices have been developed: one for efficient disinfection of healthy skin (e.g. hands and feet) in hospitals and public spaces where bacteria can pose a lethal threat; and another to shoot bacteria-killing agents into infested chronic wounds and enable a quicker healing process.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA-an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics-poses a far greater health threat than previously known and is making its way into hospitals, according to a study in the December issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The new threat is easily picked up in fitness centers, schools, and other public places and has increased...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has asked for a commitment from the Obama administration and the European Union to further the Society's mission to achieve the development of 10 new antibiotics within the next 10 years, known as the 10 x '20 Initiative. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified antimicrobial resistance as one of the three greatest threats to human health....
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A new study suggests that community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is on the rise in US hospitals, and is adding to rather than replacing the type of MRSA that arises within hospitals, the hospital-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA); the study authors also found that the entry route for CA-MRSA is via outpatients who pick up the infection in places like gyms, schools and other...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Washington, DC (AHN) – The rate of an infection-causing bacteria that is resistant to most antibiotics, is on the rise and is a more serious health threat than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said in a statement that from 1999 to 2006, the rate of community-associated [...]
Ivanhoe Broadcast News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The deadly superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, (MRSA), which is resistant to most common antibiotics, poses a far greater health threat than previously thought.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Bio-Clean, Inc. (OTCBB: BOCL) ("Bio-Clean" or the "Company") announced that testing of its Clean Kill Non-Alcohol based hand sanitizer has proved that it can be an effective weapon against the epidemic spread of MRSA and Staph. MRSA infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria - often called "staph." MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus....
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Cases of antibiotic-resistant staph infections usually acquired in the community are growing in the United States and rapidly spreading to hospitals, researchers said Tuesday. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can penetrate wounds and cause lethal bloodstream and lung infections, kills about 20,000 each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control...
Stayin' Alive (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
But I'm still going to link to this new and disturbing information about the growing prevalence of community-acquired MRSA . Extending the Cure, a project of Resources for the Future, works to make sure we still have antibiotics that work. Yes, they are somewhat redundant and repetitive with my friends at Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics , but their writ is a bit broader than APUA's since...
PRNewsChannel.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A leading Tampa dermatologist, Dr. Seth Forman, warns about the increase in MRSA cases on ABC Action News(WFTS), the local ABC affiliate.
Booster Shots (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Cases of community-acquired MRSA infection, the potentially deadly superbug that is resistant to most antibiotics, are increasing and spreading rapidly into hospitals as well, researchers reported today. MRSA -- methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- can attack wounds and trigger lethal bloodstream...
VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Strains of antibiotic-resistant infections normally found in the community are increasingly showing up among hospital outpatients, raising the risk that inpatients could become infected, new research says. From 1999 to 2006, researchers found a sevenfold increase in the incidence of outpatients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. Outpatients include people treated in...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Drug-resistant bacteria infections have increased by 90 percent in the US since 1999, and new strains have been discovered outside of hospitals, according to researchers.Ramanan Laxminarayan of Princeton University in New Jersey and colleagues discovered two new strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients that appear to have been acquired outside of hospitals.Laxminarayan’s...
thepharmaletter.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Over the next decade, modest growth in the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) drug market will be driven in part by the uptake of three emerging agents from Theravance/Astellas, Johnson & Johnson/Basilea and Forest/AstraZeneca/Takeda, says a new report from research and advisory firm Decision Resources.
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devonagi8u | 10/12/2009
MRSA virus or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a pretty severe threat to human health. Although the word ‘virus' is associated with the name, it is actually a strain of bacteria. However, the strain shows many qualities of virus too. MRSA,MRSA virus,MRSA Transmission,MRSA Virus Symptoms http://www.mrsavirus.co.uk/
bharatbook | 10/07/2009
A nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, infection is a new infection that is usually defined as an infection that is identified at least forty-eight to seventy-two hours following admission, This type of infection is also known as a hospital-acquired infection (or more generically healthcare-associated infections). Marketing planners in the pharmaceutical or diagnostic industries should have an understanding
pharmacyonesource | 07/14/2009
Clinical decision support system improves efficiency of pharmacist initiatives Bellevue, Wash. -- Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software as a service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced today that The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ has adopted Sentri7 to take its clinical pharmacy programs to the next level. With Sentri7, clinicians have a single point of access to lab
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