Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates
A study published today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy1 provides the best available evidence that cases of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)---one of the most common and increasing types of hospital-acquired infection---can be reduced in hospital wards if doctors prescribe narrow-spectrum antibiotics rather than broad-spectrum agents. Researchers at the Royal Free Hospit...Who is minding the Innovation Gap?
Unofficially, it starts the summer season and with sparkling weather framing joyous graduates, family picnics, the...Starting a tech business? Step 1 is minding the intellectual property
The idea usually comes first. Is it Biotech? Software? Before raising any money, hiring an employee, or forming a business entity, protecting this commercial idea is critical because it is most likely intellectual property. <br...Child Minding Still Not Up to the Mark
The Care Commission has found that although the standard of child minding is generally good in Scotland one in five of Scotland's child minding services// is still failing to meet the highest legal standards of care. Concerns have been raised over some 1065 services where issues of inadequate health and hygiene, poor record keeping and insufficient insurance have been raised T...