How Often Should I Clean My Towels?
There are lots of items in your house that need to be held clean, but one that can escape the minds of people is the towels. Because we’re using them to dry parts of our body that we’ve just given a More...
MRSA: Antibiotics and biocidal cleaners may spread multidrug resistance
Antibiotic use on people or pets, and use of biocidal cleaning products such as bleach, are associated with multidrug resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the home. This contamination More...
Understanding Why Antimicrobial Resistance Research is Necessary
Microbes refer to an umbrella term for all the disease causing microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi. These are the primitive microscopic life forms causing diseases and infections by different complex More...
Intensive decontamination eliminates MRSA, other drug resistant bugs from pig farm: Study
Decontamination protocols eradicated both methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and antibiotic resistant, pathogenic intestinal bacteria, the Enterobacteriaceae, from a pig farm. The research appears More...
Fight your fear of hospitals: it could save your life
When you see hospitals through the prism of the media, it’s no wonder you view them as little more than germ-infested harbourers of superbugs. Every day, a new headline states, “MRSA SCARE IN HOSPITALS!” or More...
3 Medical Advancements of the Past Decade
Technology is always advancing. One of the fastest advancing fields in the world is medical technology. From antibiotic-resistant infections to deadly illnesses like ebola, the health threats facing the world are More...
New study highlights Illinois abortion clinics ‘dangerous’ conditions
A new study says Illinois is facing a serious women’s health crisis and the Illinois Department of Public Health is receiving the heat for the crisis. A new report, released by Illinois Right to Life, documents More...
Johns Hopkins study: New UV Light Decontamination System effective against MRSA, HIV, C Diff, others
Spectra254, a developer of high-power, easy-to-use, affordable UVC light decontamination systems, has released a recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine that reports that Spectra254’s Spectra 1000 Series of UV More...
Phase I study for MRSA, VISA drug, Debio 1450 launched
Debiopharm Group™ (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical company developing prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs as well as companion diagnostics, today announced the launch of a Phase More...
Dalvance receives FDA approval for the treatment of Staph and Strep skin infections
PRESS RELEASE The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Dalvance (dalbavancin), a new antibacterial drug used to treat adults with skin infections. MRSAImage/CDC Dalvance is intended to treat acute bacterial More...
WHO releases report on antibiotic resistance
NEWS RELEASE 30 APRIL 2014 | GENEVA – A new report by WHO–its first to look at antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, globally–reveals that this serious threat is no longer a prediction More...
Vancomycin-resistant MRSA superbug found in Brazil
PRESS RELEASE An international research team led by Cesar A. Arias, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has identified a new superbug that caused a bloodstream infection More...
Sivextro, to treat MRSA skin infections, receives recommendation from FDA Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee
PRESS RELEASE Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee (AIDAC) voted to recommend approval of Cubist’s investigational More...
Healthcare-associated infections: 722,000 infections in 2011 in the US according to CDC data
On any given day, approximately one in 25 U.S. patients has at least one infection contracted during the course of their hospital care, adding up to about 722,000 infections in 2011, according to new data from the More...
UCLA researchers issue guidelines on the treatment and management of MRSA skin abscesses
It has been more than 10 years since the clinical battle began with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and doctors are still grappling with how to diagnose, treat and prevent More...
Notre Dame researchers discover ‘oxadiazoles’, a new class of antibiotics for MRSA treatment
A new class of antibiotics have been discovered that show promise in treating difficult to treat infections caused by Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other threats to public health. MRSAImage/CDC Researchers More...
New Use For Antipsychotic Drug Holds Promise for Tuberculosis Cure
The increase in antibiotic resistance is coming at a bad time, as more and more pharmaceutical companies begin downsizing or eliminating their antimicrobial research branches due to lack of profits. Fearing a More...
FDA accepts Cubist’s NDA for the investigational antibiotic tedizolid to treat MRSA infections
PRESS RELEASE Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the Company’s New Drug Application (NDA) for its investigational antibiotic tedizolid More...
Becton Dickinson receives FDA clearance to market the BD MAX™ StaphSR Assay
Press Release BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced yesterday it has received FDA clearance to market the BD MAX™ StaphSR More...
Narrow-spectrum ultraviolet light could dramatically reduce surgical infections from organisms like MRSA: Study
New research suggests that narrow-spectrum ultraviolet (UV) light could dramatically reduce surgical wound infections such as those caused by MRSA, according to a study by Columbia University Medical Center More...
