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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...
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Madison's PunchStock acquired by Getty Images

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition reportedly is part of a business strateg...

Waukesha software, data supplier Big Hammer acquired

in Brentwood announced it would expand its offerings to manufactu...

Greenbrier & Russel acquired by Fujitsu

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

is an application and systems integration company, that designs,...

Wingra Technologies acquired by California software company

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...

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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...
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July Issue of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Highlights Study of Factive Tablets for Five-Day Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 12, 2007 - Results from thesuccessful clinical trial of Oscient Pharmaceuticals' (Nasdaq:OSCI) FACTIVE(R) (gemifloxacin mesylate) tablets for the five-daytreatment of community-acquired pneumonia of mild to moderateseverity (CAP) have been published in the July issue of thepeer-reviewed Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, currentlyavailable in advance...

Nektar Threraputics Announces Phase 2a Clinical Results Regarding the use of NKTR-061 (Inhaled Amikacin) to Treat Gram-Negative Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Presented at the Annual American Thoracic Society International Conference

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2007 - Medicalprofessionals seeking to treat the serious and growing problem ofhospital-acquired gram-negative pneumonia may have a new weapon:NKTR-061 (inhaled-amikacin), which is a product candidate beingdeveloped by Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq:NKTR). Results of a Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating the use ofNKTR-061 (Inhaled Amikacin) to treat me...
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