Hospital cleaners to cut superbug
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Hospitals will be told exactly how to clean their wards under new guidelines hoped to cut MRSA deaths.
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LONDON - More than a quarter of the country's NHS Trusts are failing to meet hygiene regulations brought in to combat outbreaks of superbugs in hospitals, the Healtchare Commission reported on Thursday.
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Alan Johnson, the health secretary, will today declare the long-sleeved white coats worn by generations of hospital doctors to be an MRSA-infection hazard that must be eliminated throughout the NHS in England.
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A drug-resistant type of "superbug" bacteria called MRSA is more than eight times as common as believed in U.S. hospitals, putting patients at risk and posing a big hygiene problem, experts said on Tuesday.
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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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Essential oils could kill the deadly MRSA hospital 'superbug', scientists have claimed.
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The headlines are disturbing -- schools closing for disinfection, a 17-year-old dead from a drug-resistant "superbug." But health officials said on Friday it is no new emergency and the best way to deal with the bacteria is simply to wash your hands.
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By Sean Poulter  A SUPERBUG similar to MRSA which affects thousands of hospital patients has been found in farm animals and meat.
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A hand-held probe could cut the number of patients who develop infections following operations.
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WASHINGTON: The World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and other agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking water and sanitation and reduce threats of infectious-disease outbreaks in the
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Cleanliness inspectors are sent into two hospitals for spot checks following concerns over poor hygiene.
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The traditional doctor's white coat is to be changed as part of the UK Government plans to tackle hospital infections.
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Old-fashioned hygiene is advised in the war on drug-resistant staph.
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Scotland's health standards watchdog says all hospital patients should be screened for MRSA.
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Think of germs as gangsters. One thug lurking on a corner you might outrun, but a dozen swaggering down the street? Yikes. Bacteria make their own gangs, clustering quietly in the body until there's a large enough group to begin an attack. This is the next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs. The idea: Don't just try to kill bacteria. The bugs will always find a way to thwart the next antibiotic.
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A British scientist invents a new test to identify the MRSA hospital "superbug" earlier.
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Hospital visitors are being urged to improve their hygiene in an effort to crack down on infections.