Breaches of infection control protocol may have contributed to three patients who were infected with MRSA after receiving epidural shots at a West Virginia outpatient pain clinic, according to a study ...

There has been a sharp rise in cases of the superbug MRSA being contracted outside hospitals across the UK. Britons have been urged to avoid sharing items such as towels or razors, particularly in ...

MRSA has become a commonly encountered pathogen in the clinical setting. It causes severe morbidity and mortality worldwide, with death rates in patients with MRSA infection ranging from 20% to 50% ...

At Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, 14 babies have been infected by MRSA since March, according to a News Tribune news report. In addition, the hospital discovered 17 other babies are ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among people with a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection caught in the general community (rather than in hospital), more than 20 percent were dead ...

Threatened with financial penalties, U.S. hospitals are screening patients for drug-resistant germs and increasing the use of newer antibiotics. Medicare will stop paying for treatment of some ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - While rates of drug-resistant staph infections appear to be on the rise in society in general, hospitals are making progress at curbing at least one source of infection in some of ...

Researchers are using genome sequencing to predict the severity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, according to a study in Genome Research. The researchers examined whole ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(5):499-509. Limiting unnecessary, empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy is universally thought to be an effective tool for reducing HAIs and limiting ...

LOS ANGELES -- Several Los Angeles police officers have contracted a possible skin infection, the department said Tuesday. The three officers were stationed at the West Valley station in Reseda, which ...

A hotel in Ann Arbor is being sued for allegedly having an unkept pool that led to a woman getting a severe infection. 23-year-old Alexis Williams was in serious pain as she could not use her leg, and ...