City targets hospital infections
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An awareness campaign aimed at reducing the level of hospital acquired infections is launched in Glasgow.
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A deadly bacteria that attacks the intestines of mainly elderly patients is showing up with more frequency at a handful of Ontario hospitals, Joshua Tepper, the Canadian province's acting chief medical officer of health, said on Tuesday.
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QUEBEC CITY - The provincial government is expected to announce its latest plan to fight C. difficile infections in hospitals Tuesday.
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The government is launching a proactive fight for hospitals to tackle MRSA and other infections.
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By RICHARD BURGESS  The state Department of Health and Hospitals on Friday issued swim advisories for public beaches in Cameron Parish, except one, after testing found high levels of a bacteria used as an indicator of sewage.
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Targeted cleaning to tackle MRSA hotspots is key to reducing hospital infections, an expert says.
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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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NEW YORK  - The rate of skin and soft tissue infections that were resistant to most antibiotics, acquired in Chicago communities, increased rapidly between 2000 and 2005, researchers report.
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Pyjamas and bed linen made with silver cloth are to be used in hospitals to help fight the MRSA superbug.
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The nationâs largest public health system will provide infection and death rates at the 11 New York hospitals it administers.
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The traditional doctor's white coat is to be changed as part of government plans to tackle hospital infections.
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Cleanliness inspectors are sent into two hospitals for spot checks following concerns over poor hygiene.
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The Montgomery County Health Department will start today with a series of flu shot clinics that will target - and demand proof of - those at high risk from influenza.
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A demonstration project by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking rapid H.I.V. testing to city streets.
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Old-fashioned hygiene is advised in the war on drug-resistant staph.
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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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Quebec hospitals have been ordered to isolate patients who are infected with C. difficile. But according to some patients, that isn&#39;t happening fast enough.