Bacteria infecting US forces wounded in Iraq
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US health officials are demanding better infection control methods in military hospitals after a number of infections were reported among forces injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Washington - The reddish bacterium to blame for this year&#39;s shortage of flu vaccine has a colorful history. Until the 1960s, Serratia marcescens was considered harmless - so safe, in fact, that the military
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BAGHDAD - A cholera epidemic in northern Iraq has infected approximately 7,000 people and could reach Baghdad within weeks as the disease spreads through the country's decrepit and unsanitary water system, Iraqi health officials said yesterday.
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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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RAMADI, Iraq -- Medical officials say fighting between US troops and Iraqi insurgents in the western city of Ramadi has killed at least eight civilians and wounded nearly 20 others.
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Armed with miniaturized medical devices, surgeons bring advanced care to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan just moments after they're hurt. By Randy Dotinga.
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An expectedly 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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TORONTO (CP) - A strain of C. difficile with properties linked to increased virulence has become predominant in several US hospitals, prompting researchers to suggest that bacteria strain may be responsible for the sharp increase in cases and severity of
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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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A rare and sometimes deadly pneumonia  has hit 18 U.S. soldiers deployed in Iraq, and Army medical  investigators are at a loss to explain the cause, according to  a study published on Tuesday.
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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany Doctors at a U-S military hospital in Germany have been working through the night to stabilize soldiers and civilians wounded in Tuesday's attack in Iraq.
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NEW YORK  - Body shaving and "turf burns"  seem to be two of the factors that raise football players' risk  of contracting an increasingly common antibiotic-resistant skin  infection, U.S. health officials report.
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A total of 20 US Marines were wounded in action in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi west of Baghdad, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.
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The US military says it is investigating reports that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been wounded.
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A steady stream of wounded from Iraq, mostly from fighting in Fallujah, has begun arriving at the U.S. military's main hospital in Europe, an official said Thursday.
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Health officials said the Brooklyn student had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria.
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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.