Study indicates dramatic rise in antibiotic-resistant community-acquired staph infections
Staph infections resistant to antibiotics, previously only associated with hospitalization or prior contact with the healthcare system, are now widespread in the community and coming home. A new study from Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital, featured in the March 7, 2006 Annals of Internal Medicine, reports on a dramatic rise in antibiotic resistant community-...Hospital-acquired infections -- Inevitable?
In a press conference held earlier today at Washington D.C.'s The Press Club, David B. Nash, MD, editor of The American Journal of Medical Quality, addressed hospital-acquired infections and the widespread anchoring belief ?by both healthcare professionals and patients ?that acquiring infections in the hospital is unavoidable. This concern is addressed in a special supplement to the Novemb...Researchers discover 'acquired' DNA key to certain bacterial infection
Results of the study, led by researchers at Oregon State University, will be published online this...Madison's PunchStock acquired by Getty Images
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Howard Blietz and Eric Wasowicz, Greenbrier & Russel's co-founders, will remain with Fujitsu Consulting in senior executive roles. A Fujitsu company statement said...Appleton telecom company acquired
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Wingra makes e-mail related software, including programs to move data from GroupWise and Lotus environments to Microsoft Outloo, which a Quest press release said would diver...Reducing The Rate Of Hospital Acquired Infections
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality and the incidence of MRSA continues to increase.// Hospitals have relied on three methods to prevent the spread of MRSA including better hand hygiene among health care workers, restriction of antibiotics, and the detection and isolation of infected patients. For the study, researche...Hospital-acquired HIV Kills One Child in Kerala
Rashmi was an 18-month-old baby who succumbed to HIV/AIDS infection that she acquired in a hospital; today almost the whole village mourns her death//. The infection was acquired in a medical college hospital during a blood transfusion about five months ago . Rashmi was suffering from a condition of low hemoglobin called anemia and she was taken to the hospital fro blood tran...Three Teslas magnetic resonance imager acquired. Shot in the arm for research
The University Hospital at the University of Navarra and the Applied Medicine Research Centre (CIMA) of the University has purchased a 3 Teslas magnetic resonance// imager for use in research, being the first of its kind for research applications in Spain. The 3 Teslas is the magnetic resonance imaging unit, endowed with a superior capacity under the purview of the international medical bodies in...Acquired platelet function defect
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