Superbugs

  • Can Cannibalism Fight Infections?
    Whenever humans create a new antibiotic, deadly bacteria can counter it by turning into new, indestructible superbugs. That’s why bacterial infection is the No. 1 killer in hospitals today. But new research from Tel Aviv University may give drug developers ...More
    February 2, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Running Out of Options to Fight Superbugs
    People are dying from "superbugs" because our antibiotic arsenal has run dry, leaving the world without sufficient weapons to fight ever-changing bacteria, warn infectious disease researchers at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.In a Jan. 29 perspective in ...More
    January 29, 2009
    Posted in News
  • MRSA Pre-Screening Effective in Reducing Otolaryngic Surgical Infection Rates
    Pre-operative screening of patients for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may be an effective way to reduce infection rates following otolaryngic surgeries, according to new research published in the January 2009 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and ...More
    January 1, 2009
    Posted in News
  • New Drugs Against MRSA, Other Superbugs Still Lacking
    Infectious disease experts warn that new drugs are urgently needed to treat six drug-resistant bacteria that cause most hospital infections and increasingly escape the effects of antibiotics.The ESKAPE pathogens -- as these six bad bugs have been dubbed -- are still on the ...More
    December 1, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Hospital Superbugs on the Rise Despite Prevention Efforts, Study Shows
    Although infection control has been substantially ramped up in Canadian hospitals since the SARS crisis of 2003, resistant bacterial infections post-SARS are multiplying even faster, a new Queen's University study shows.Led by Queen's University epidemiologist Dr. Dick ...More
    November 7, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Handwashing Policies in Place but Monitoring Hand Hygiene Remains a Challenge
    According to a new analysis from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), 99 percent of the 103 Ontario hospitals participating in a 2008 patient safety survey reported that they had a formal hand hygiene policy in place, and just more than one-third of these ...More
    October 30, 2008
    Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
  • Infectious Diseases Experts Observe “Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work Week” Oct. 6-10
    ARLINGTON, Va. — As cold and flu season starts, infectious diseases experts are helping educate the public and their healthcare providers about what will and won’t help people get over these common infections. With antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” on ...More
    October 6, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Is Re-Emerging Superbug the Next MRSA?
    MAYWOOD, Ill. – Dr. Ed Corboy had no idea what was afflicting his 80-year-old mother, Joan Corboy. All he knew for certain was that since being treated for what was a routine diarrheal infection, she seemed to be wasting away and none of her doctors or other health ...More
    September 15, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Germicidal Agent in Paints Can Fight Superbugs
    Scientists have discovered the germicidal properties of titanium dioxide, a brilliant white compound used as a brightening agent in paints. New information on how nanoparticle-sized forms of titanium dioxide destroy bacteria when they absorb ultraviolet light energy from ...More
    September 11, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Biofilms Could Help Battle Superbugs
    Biofilms, the very thing can be so harmful, may become an unexpected asset to researchers trying to develop a vaccine against antibiotic-resistant organisms known as superbugs. A sticky substance produced by bacteria in these biofilms is being tested as a viable vaccine ...More
    September 10, 2008
    Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
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