More 'Superbug' Infections Seen in ER Patients
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Among patients treated at urban public hospital emergency rooms for skin and soft-tissue infections, more and more often the cause appears to be the antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' known as MRSA, new research shows.
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There are reports a bacteria plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. After studying the spread of Clostridium difficile bacteria at eight hospitals in Montreal, a
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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Common respiratory and urinary tract infections play a role in triggering heart attacks and strokes, a study of 40,000 medical records suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Among people with a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection caught in the general community (rather than in hospital), more than 20 percent were dead within a year, according to new research findings.
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SAN ANTONIO - Government health officials are urging stronger infection control procedures in military hospitals following a number of infections among troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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As national estimates focus on an increase in serious infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant germ, officials in the Washington region have identified more than a dozen cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools.
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Infections acquired in hospitals, which take a heavy toll on patients, arise mainly from poor hygiene in hospital procedures, not from how sick patients were when they were admitted, according to three new studies.
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Rates of infection with the deadly Clostridium difficile  bug rise in English hospitals, while MRSA rates  fall only slowly.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- An international epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis may be more widespread than previously thought, says an article in this week's issue of The Lancet .
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Compensation claims over the MRSA superbug may rise as lawyers use workplace laws to pursue hospitals.
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The fewer nurses there are on duty in an intensive care unit, the more people on respirators get pneumonia, a new study has found.
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A dangerous, drug-resistant staph germ may be infecting as many as 5 percent of hospital and nursing home patients, according to a comprehensive study.
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As national estimates focus on an increase in serious infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant germ, officials in the Washington region have identified more than 18 cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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Sixteen hospital deaths in the Northern Trust area are linked to an outbreak of the superbug C. difficile.
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Drug-resistant staph infections that have made headlines in recent weeks come from what the nation's top doctor calls "the cockroach of bacteria" Â a bad germ that can lurk in lots of places, but not one that should trigger panic.