More US Kids Being Infected By MRSA Outside Of Hospitals
SmartAboutHealth -  Saugus, MA, USA
Washington (SmartAboutHealth) - The number of kids in the  US being infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or the MRSA superbug has ...

Entire health system needed to reduce MRSA infections
Seattle Times -  United States
To reduce the incidence of MRSA and other infections, health care providers and institutions must "engage the hearts and minds of everyone in the hospital," ...

Study finds MRSA in Midwestern swine, workers
EurekAlert (press release) -  Washington, DC, USA
The first study documenting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in swine and swine workers in the  United States has been published by ...

The Truth About MRSA
Blogcritics.org -  Aurora, OH, USA
Resistant staph bacterial infections caused by MRSA have become very common in the last few years reaching almost epidemic proportions. MRSA is a particular ...

Healthcare alliance collaborates with Mary Washington Hospital
Stafford  County  Sun -  Stafford, VA, USA
A team of VHA clinical experts visited MWH on Tuesday to study the clinical processes the hospital follows to prevent the spread of MRSA among patients. ...

Recent Study Shows MRSA in Children on the Rise
InjuryBoard.com -  Tampa, FL, USA
A recent  Chicago study shows that MRSA infections in children have more than doubled in recent years. The study examined more than 20000 children from ...

APIC 2009 'Targeting Zero' Initiative Offers Practical Tools ...
PR Newswire (press release) -  New York, NY, USA
In addition to the new elimination guides, APIC will conduct a 2009 follow-up survey to its ground-breakingMRSA Prevalence Study, first released in 2007. ...

Children’s Staph Infections Increasingly Resistant to Drugs
New York Times -  United States
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, known as MRSA, accounted for 28.1 percent of children’s head and neck staph infections in 2006, ...

ConvaTec Announces Expanded Indications for AQUACEL(R) and AQUACEL ...
PR Newswire (press release) -  New York, NY, USA
... of the American Medical Association, the estimated number of patients in the United States developing invasive MRSA infections in 2005 was 94360. ...