Fla. scientist pursues staph vaccine
Fort Mill Times
In recent decades, staph has learned to survive penicillin and methicillin, two antibiotics that once killed it. Thanks to its knack for frustrating scientists, staph has turned into a high-stakes disease. Many brushes with staph cause litt...
MRSA strain causing higher rates of death
eMaxHealth.com
The MRSA strain, USA600, is five times more lethal than other strains of methicillin resistant staph aureus. MRSA in the bloodstream can lead to death. The thirty day mortality rate for the USA600 MRSA strain is fifty percent, compared to e...
Top Ten Drugs That Cause Kidney Damage
EmpowHer
Top ten drugs that cause kidney damage: 1. Antibiotics, including ciprofloxacin, methicillin, vancomycin, sulfonamides. 2. Analgesics, including acetominophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID): aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, ...
Family Says Hospital Worker Defiled Corpse
Courthouse News Service
The family claims that Anthony Merino "did defile the corpse" of Gladys Smith, who died at the hospital from an Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. The family says her corpse was in the hospital morgue, which was supposed to be loc...
Who's Fighting the Superbugs?
Voiceof San Diego
diff, and the well-known Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, are now among our largest infectious disease threats. They annually infect millions of people worldwide and kill tens of thousands in the United States -- more t...
Marion VA hospital: VA Secretary Eric Shinseki orders 'top-to-bottom ...
Chicago Tribune
They included: --A patient with a history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was "inappropriately" put in a room sharing a bathroom with two other patients. --Two physicians performed procedures for which they lacked priv...
What We Like About Cubist Pharma
Seekingalpha.com
aureus) and certain other Gram-positive bacteria, and for blood-stream infections (bacteremia), including right-sided infective endocarditis, caused by methicillin susceptible and methicillin resistant S. aureus (MSSA and MRSA). In other wo...
IDSA: Rare MRSA Strain Deadlier than Others
MedPage Today
Explain to interested patients that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is difficult to treat and can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Note that this study reports on a rare strain that appears to be much more dangerous th...
Inappropriate Initial Antibiotic Treatment May Extend Stays for ...
Phramalive.com
population has some form of Staphylococcus aureus on their skin, and an increasing number of those individuals carry the more resistant form known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). [ii],[iii],[iv] “Up to this point, the...
Humans, pets may pass MRSA to each other
Batavia Sun
Sun-TImes Media File) » Click to enlarge image New studies have found that humans can pass MRSA -- methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- along to animals, including their pets. And pets can pass it to humans. It can develop into a ...