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View Post: Pink Stethoscope Brings Cheer To The Intensive Care Unit
16 hours ago by The Happy Hospitalist  
It's no wonder that dedicated stethoscopes hold promise to control the spread of infection between hospitalized patients. But they are rarely used except in patients with a known infections drug resistant infection or communicable ...
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View Post: Cheap Tattoos Come With Free Drug-Resistant Staph Infections - The ...
18 Dec 2007 by Meg Marco  
If you're in the market for a cheap, illegal tattoo, you might want to make sure that you have good health insurance, because your new ink might come with a free drug-resistant staph infection. A West Rutland [Vermont] couple is facing ...
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View Post: Plasma Devices Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Even in Chronic ...
1 Dec 2009 by Clay Dillow  
But researchers are finding that plasma can carry out very small tasks just as well, like killing MSRA and other drug-resistant bacteria both on the skin's surface and in chronic, non-healing wounds. Two new devices under development have the capacity to kill bacteria both in clinical settings where one might pick up an infection as well as in wounds already populated by stubborn bacteria colonies. One of the devices is safe for human skin, more effective than the usual ...
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View Post: Life and Style
The Independent UK - Drug-resistant staph ...
26 Nov 2009 by The Independent   ...
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View Post: Intensive care units may be breeding grounds for drug-resistant ...
2 Dec 2009
As many as 71% of the world's intensive care patients are receiving antibiotic treatment, which could lead to an increase in drug-resistant super bugs, a new study suggests. The incidence of ICU infections—particularly bloodborne ...
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View Post: About That Slate Antibiotic Resistance Article... : Mike the Mad ...
4 Dec 2009 by Mike none@example.com  
3) The missing 'non-drug' component is infection control. A rise in the percentage of resistant infections also typically means a rise in the absolute number of infections. Resistant infections, in other words, are extra bonus ...
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View Post: Emergence of drug-resistant H1N1
Not Another CONspiracy
3 Dec 2009 by Ed   ...
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View Post: World honors Bhopal 25th; Siddiqui vote in Senate; EPA looks at ...
4 Dec 2009 by kathryngilje  
In an unsettling parallel, scientists recently linked the use of fungicides on plants to the rise of drug-resistant fungal infections in humans. Specifically, Dutch scientists report in the December issue of Lancet Infectious Diseases ...
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View Post: Daily Commercial
29 Nov 2009
Most of the focus has been on drug-resistant infections acquired in hospitals, which the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says kill more than 63000 people in the United States each year. ...
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