ABCNEWS.com reports today on the top 10 advances in Medicine. I found the top two advances to be the most interesting and you’ll want to read what ABCNEWS has to say about #1.ABCNEWS surveyed “leading experts” from a variety of medical specialties. The top ten are listed below, please visit ABCNEWS.com for a complete description
From London – British health officials have announced plans to set new hygiene standards for hospitals to combat the spread of so-called “superbugs.”According to the Department of Health, the new guidelines are aimed at fighting hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which are resistant to some antibiotics. “Elderly people, the very young and
SAN FRANCISCO — Experts have been pounding the same message over and over again for years – overuse of antibiotics has helped fuel the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs.”Yet the abuse of antibiotics remains a cause for concern and could even be on the rise, scientists and doctors told a drugs meeting here.“The prevalence of antibiotic-resistant
Strongest Antibiotic ApprovedFrom Associated PressToday, the FDA approved Synercid to treat vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections, a life-threatening infection that typically strikes hospital patients. One recent study estimated as many as 52 percent of enterococcal infections are now vancomycin-resistant, making them difficult if not impossible to treat.The FDA also approved Synercid to treat certain complicated skin infections
For the last 10 years, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and elsewhere have, according to news stories, been sounding alarms about the growth of antibiotic resistance, a problem that is particularly prevalent in hospitals, where microbes spread quickly and attack the elderly, people with weak immune systems and other vulnerable patients.
ABCNEWS.com reports today on the top 10 advances in Medicine. I found the top two advances to be the most interesting and you’ll want to read what ABCNEWS has to say about #1.ABCNEWS surveyed “leading experts” from a variety of medical specialties. The top ten are listed below, please visit ABCNEWS.com for a complete description
From London – British health officials have announced plans to set new hygiene standards for hospitals to combat the spread of so-called “superbugs.”According to the Department of Health, the new guidelines are aimed at fighting hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which are resistant to some antibiotics. “Elderly people, the very young and
SAN FRANCISCO — Experts have been pounding the same message over and over again for years – overuse of antibiotics has helped fuel the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs.”Yet the abuse of antibiotics remains a cause for concern and could even be on the rise, scientists and doctors told a drugs meeting here.“The prevalence of antibiotic-resistant
Strongest Antibiotic ApprovedFrom Associated PressToday, the FDA approved Synercid to treat vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections, a life-threatening infection that typically strikes hospital patients. One recent study estimated as many as 52 percent of enterococcal infections are now vancomycin-resistant, making them difficult if not impossible to treat.The FDA also approved Synercid to treat certain complicated skin infections
For the last 10 years, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and elsewhere have, according to news stories, been sounding alarms about the growth of antibiotic resistance, a problem that is particularly prevalent in hospitals, where microbes spread quickly and attack the elderly, people with weak immune systems and other vulnerable patients.