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MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Australian hospitals should avoid prescribing expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics for pneumonia to avoid the development of more drug-resistant super bugs, according to a University of Melbourne study.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
PolyMedix, Inc. (OTC BB: PYMX), an emerging biotechnology company developing new therapeutic drug products to treat infectious diseases and acute cardiovascular disorders based on biomimetics, has initiated dosing and commenced a Phase I clinical study in Canada for its defensin mimetic antibiotic compound, PMX-30063. PolyMedix received a notice of no objection from Health Canada for the Company's Clinical Trial Application ("CTA") for PMX-30063 in May 2008.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found a potential new way to stop the bacteria that cause gastroenteritis, tularemia and severe diarrhea from making people sick. The researchers found that the molecule LED209 interferes with the biochemical signals that cause bacteria in our bodies to release toxins. "What we have here is a completely novel approach to combating illness," said Dr.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Peter Rothschild, M.D., renowned Radiologist and MRI expert, has released the ground-breaking paper, recently published on AuntMinnie.com, titled "Preventing Infection in MRI: Best Practices for Infection Control in and Around MRI Suites." This article expands on the issue that MRIs are often not being properly cleaned, thus leading to concern over Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) spread during radiological scans, in particular MRI.
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Many drugs once considered Charles Atlases of the pharmaceutical realm have been reduced to the therapeutic equivalent of 97-pound weaklings as the diseases they once dispatched with ease have developed resistance to them. The problem is well documented for antibiotics, although not confined to them. Chemotherapy drugs that were once highly effective when first used against a particular cancer now are often rendered near powerless when a patient's cancer resurges.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
SinoFresh HealthCare, Inc. (OTCBB: SFSH) announced preliminary results today from a successful in vivo pilot study indicating that its patented SinoFresh® nasal spray was shown to be useful in controlling the MRSA "super-bug" in the nasal passages. This study utilized a recognized scientific model intended to demonstrate SinoFresh® nasal spray's ability to kill MRSA hiding in the nasal passages.
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Hospital-acquired infections until recently were "considered an unavoidable risk," but "now there is proof that nearly all hospital infections are avoidable when doctors and staff clean their hands and rigorously practice proper hygiene and other preventive measures," Betsy McCaughey, chair of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of New York, writes in a
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
In the first statewide study of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in the United States, California officials have identified 18 cases of the dangerous and difficult-to-treat disease between 1993 and 2006, and 77 cases that were one step away from XDR TB. The study appears in the August 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. California reports almost 3,000 cases of tuberculosis annually, the largest number of TB cases of any U.S. state.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
More than 17% of HIV-positive patients in 28 China provinces developed resistance to at least one available HIV/AIDS drug by 2006 and 2007, Chinese government researchers announced at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Reuters reports.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
GTCbio just announced its inaugural Bugs & Drugs conference - one of the leading forums to address unmet medical needs for problematic microbials - taking place on September 22-23, 2008 in San Diego, CA. Infections are becoming increasingly problematic due to the recent resistances to current antibiotics. Patients suffering from resistant bugs (hospital-acquired or community-acquired) now need new yet unavailable treatments to combat their infections.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
In a retrospective study of 174 tuberculosis patients treated at National Jewish Health (formerly National Jewish Medical and Research Center), patients with extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) were almost eight times as likely to die as patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
The death sentence that too often accompanies a diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) can be commuted if an individualized outpatient therapy program is followed - even in countries with limited resources and a heavy burden of TB. A study conducted in Peru between 1999 and 2002 shows that more than 60 percent of XDR-TB patients not co-infected with HIV were cured after receiving the bulk of their personalized treatment at home or in community-based settings.
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Scientists at Swansea University have discovered a new type of antibiotic in maggot secretions that can tackle up to 12 different strains of MRSA, as well as E. coli and C. difficile. This research was funded by leading charity Action Medical Research, with support from the Rosetrees Trust.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Diatherix Laboratories, an independent clinical reference laboratory located in the Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, announced it has received its Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) certificate* for its proprietary licensed testing process, Target Enriched Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction (Tem-PCR).
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Infections following treatment in clinics, retirement homes, and long-term care facilities are a grave problem for patients, and resistant germs can be particularly devastating.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
One of the major reasons that treatment for HIV/AIDS often doesn't work as well as it should is resistance to the drugs involved. Now, scientists at McGill University have revealed how mutations hidden in previously ignored parts of the HIV genome play an important role in the development of drug resistance in AIDS patients. Their study will be published Aug. 8 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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A federal decision to permit the State of Michigan to spray the state's apple orchards with gentamicin risks undermining the value of this important antibiotic to treat blood infections in newborns and other serious human infections, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday granted the state of Michigan "emergency" permission to use gentamicin to fight a tree disease called fire blight.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Nigel Ellis, Head of Investigations at the Healthcare Commission, said: "This entire process will undoubtedly have been difficult for friends and relatives of those who died during the Clostridium difficile outbreaks at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. Our investigation catalogued failures in management and leadership and practices on the wards that were simply unacceptable.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
The prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), or the so-called "superbug," is on the rise in hospitals and routinely encountered in the emergency room. While tests to detect MRSA are becoming more common, and hospitals are intensifying procedures to better control its spread, there remains a need to develop more effective treatment options, according to new research by GfK Market Measures.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Strong leadership, appropriate staffing levels and better management of staff workloads should be just as important as hand hygiene and environmental cleanliness in the battle to reduce healthcare associated infections (HCAIs), such as MRSA and C difficile. That is the key finding of Hospital Organisation and Management Factors in Infection Control, an independent report by King's College, London, commissioned by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Clinicians and administrators are challenged every day to improve the quality of health care. One of the most daunting challenges is to reduce instances of medical harm due to infections. Reducing health care-associated infections through good practices is critical to keeping patients safe and controlling costs.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found new ways to kill dormant bacteria that have become seemingly resistant to antibiotics. Although antibiotics are the most preferred treatment against bacterial infection and disease, it has become apparent that some diseases can't be treated simply by administering antibiotics.
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
Millions of people world-wide who have contracted a highly resistant strain of HIV could benefit from a new drug to treat the infection, according to UNSW research. Co-authored by UNSW's
MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
AACC Annual Meeting - Seegene's Seeplex(R) Sepsis multi-pathogen screening test introduced today at the 2008 Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) brings a novel and fast-acting diagnostic technique for hospitals to simultaneously verify a complex range of targets that indicate sepsis, the leading cause of death in non-coronary intensive care units worldwide.
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A national analysis of physician office and emergency department records shows that the types of skin infections caused by community-acquired MRSA doubled in the eight-year study period, with the highest rates seen among children and in urban emergency rooms. The study, conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, examined annual data from the National Center for Health Statistics of patient visits for skin and soft-tissue infections from 1997 to 2005.
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: Gardasil (HPV Vaccine)
Category: Medications
Created: 8/21/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 8/21/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: prednisolone, Pediapred Oral Liquid, Medrol
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/7/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/7/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: nabumetone, Relafen
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/7/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/7/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: acyclovir, Zovirax
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/7/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/7/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: Birth Control Pills (Oral Contraceptives)
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 7/14/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 7/14/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: ciprofloxacin, Cipro, Cipro XR, Proquin XR
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 7/12/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 7/12/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: ofloxacin, Floxin
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 7/12/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 7/12/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: colesevelam, Welchol
Category: Medications
Created: 8/9/2004 8:41:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/13/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 8/9/2004 8:41:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/13/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: tegaserod, Zelnorm
Category: Medications
Created: 2/27/2003 7:13:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/21/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 2/27/2003 7:13:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/21/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: ezetimibe, Zetia
Category: Medications
Created: 2/5/2003 10:50:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 2/5/2003 10:50:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: ezetimibe and simvastatin, Vytorin
Category: Medications
Created: 1/31/2005 10:17:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 1/31/2005 10:17:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2008
MedicineNet Medications General
Title: isotretinoin, Accutane, Sotret, Claravis, Amnesteem
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2008
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2008
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