The mergers-and-acquisitions market in healthcare is alive and well so far this year. Driven by takeovers like AbbVie Inc.’s March agreement to buy cancer-drug maker Pharmacyclics Inc. for $21 billion ...

The story of MRSA begins just four years after methicillin entered medical practice in 1959. The bacteria had already developed resistance to the new antibiotic, demonstrating the remarkable ...

Vinegar may soon do more than dress your salad — it could help save lives. Scientists in Norway and Australia found a way to “supercharge” its antibacterial power using cobalt-based carbon ...

Imagine two people talking over a walkie-talkie set. Successful communication depends on them being tuned to the same frequency. If others try to communicate nearby, interference can occur, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hexachlorophene and mupirocin do not effectively remove colonies of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from people with HIV, a new study shows. "For several years ...

Severe MRSA infections can be fatal. MRSA mortality rates tend to be highest in older people. Certain underlying health conditions can also increase the risk of death. Staphylococcus aureus is a ...

How to protect yourself against the "superbug" that affects millions each year. Oct. 22, 2007 — -- When Mr. Wilson (name changed to protect confidentiality) arrived at the emergency department at ...

Leapfrog hospital safety scores, hand hygiene improvement and a possible MRSA cure caught the eye of clinical quality and infection control readers last week. The following are the 10 most-read ...

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infections used to be a problem isolated to hospitals, but, over the last five years, there's been a dramatic increase of the infection outside of ...

The international, multicentre cross-sectional study, conducted across tertiary care centres in the Netherlands, India, Italy and the USA, reported that 83.1% of Indian ERCP patients were colonised ...