Field hospitals source of infection in U.S. soldiers
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NEW YORK  - New research suggests that an outbreak of wound and bloodstream infections among U.S. service members in Iraq was acquired at contaminated field hospitals, not on the battlefield.
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Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections.
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Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide, health officials said Friday.
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THURSDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly intensive care unit patients have less risk of infection if the units have high nurse staffing levels, says a Columbia University School of Nursing study.
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More than 400 wounded US soldiers have been taken to a US military hospital in Germany for treatmentsince last Monday, the hospital said on Monday.
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The incidence of drug-resistant staph infections is climbing, affecting as many as 90,000 Americans a year and leaving them open to contracting invasive, and often fatal, diseases, a government report says.
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Two deaths have been attributed to a rare type of pneumonia that is occurring among US troops in Iraq at a higher than normal rate, according to a study in the December 22/29 issue of JAMA.
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An unexpectedly high number of U.S.  soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing  positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military  hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday.
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The U.S. Army has carried out a promising early test of the first vaccine against hepatitis E, a form of the liver-attacking disease that sickens many Asians and can spread to soldiers or other Western visitors to the region.
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The toll on U.S. troops of war in Iraq  and Afghanistan may be obscured by dramatic advances in  battlefield medicine that allow more soldiers to survive combat  injuries than ever before, according to a report in The New  England Journal of Medicine.
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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years
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The toll on US troops of war in Iraq and Afghanistan may be obscured by dramatic advances in battlefield medicine that allow more soldiers to survive combat injuries than ever
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Five St. Louis Rams developed infections after sustaining turf burns in 2003, and a few members of the San Francisco 49ers developed infections after playing the Rams early that season, a medical researcher said Friday.
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Today, the Lancet medical journal published a report which concludes that 100,000 civilians died in the US-led invasion of Iraq. This is an incredibly high estimate, and at first may seem too farfetched not to be propaganda. But it cannot easily be dismissed. The report's authors are researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The Lancet is a highly-respected, peer-reviewed publication. The report appears to be a serious academic attempt to study the public health consequences of the invasion.  Also, The New Republic magazine has conducted an interview with Prof. Gilbert Burnham, the report's main author.   Excerpts and comments below.
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RAMSTEIN, Germany The largest US military hospital overseas has had to add beds to handle the number of wounded soldiers coming in from Iraq.
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As many as 75,000 people may have drunk water contaminated by dry cleaning fluid at the U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults.