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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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Tushaus Computer acquires managed service business

The transaction will enable Tushaus Computer, a Milwaukee-based provider of information technology services, to establish a physical presence in the Green Bay market. The c...

Standard Imaging acquires Canadian PIPSpro radiation treatment technologies

Middleton, Wis. s assets. Among the assets acquired from the British Colum...

Standard Imaging acquires Canadian PIPSpro radiation treatment technologies

Middleton, Wis. assets. Among the assets acquired from the British Colu...

Rockwell Automation to acquire British process-control firm

Headquartered in Maldon, England, ICS trades and does business as , a global supplier of critical control and safety soluti...

Madison's PunchStock acquired by Getty Images

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

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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...

Ossur Acquires the U.S. Orthopaedics Company

Iceland-based Ossur hf., a global orthopaedics company, has acquired Innovation Sports, Inc., a U.S.-based ligament brace maker for $ 38.4 million. The acquisition of Innovation Sports comes on the heels of Ossur's July 2005 acquisition// of Royce Medical in the U.S., and the December 2005 acquisition of IMP Holdings in the U.K. With these acquisitions, and its 2003 acquisition of Gener...

20 Men Involved In Gay Sex Network Acquire HIV Infection

The much used Internet that enabled gay men contact in Hong Kong has been in a way responsible for HIV infection among 20 men according to a latest report. // Government health officials found all 20, who met between November 2003 and November 2005, had HIV with similar gene sequencing, the South China Morning Post reported. The discovery was made when all the men sought m...

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...

Stem of Hope: Stem Cell Research Acquires a Brittle Star As A model

Brittle star is forming the basis upon which Scientists at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Kristineberg Marine Research Station are studying// stem cells with the capacity to probe into human and vertebral research, without having to bother about ethical issues. Amphiura filiformis, or the brittle star, is a lot like the starfish and can grow back the lost arms in a few weeks....

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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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