The rate of MRSA infections in hospital patients has increased in recent years, according to a new study. Results show that in 2003, an average of 21 out of every 1,000 hospital patients developed an ...

HEALTH-care-associated infections, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), should be a concern to all of us. They pose significant risk to hospitalized patients and a major ...

Inclusion of 30-day post-discharge MRSA rates significantly changes rates of hospital-onset MRSA, which can alter hospital rankings, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital ...

Via the Boston Globe and the blog of the hospital's CEO comes work of an ongoing outbreak of community-associated MRSA in the newborn nursery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston: ...

Thirteen hospitals under Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America reduced the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by implementing universal decolonization in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While it is certain that health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections lead to ...

Should hospitals screen all inpatients for the potentially deadly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) superbug? Some infection control advocates say yes, pointing to the success of ...

More people are acquiring methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outside of hospitals, bringing the bacteria into outpatient settings and increasing hospitals' burdens in fighting the ...

CHICAGO Infections acquired from health care facilities are a public health priority for U.S. officials, given about one out of every 20 hospital patients will contract an infection they didn't come ...

Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) doubled at academic hospitals in five years, contrary to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that said MRSA ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- We trust hospitals to help make us well. What we don't expect is to get sick in a hospital. But every year, about 648,000 hospital patients develop infections during their stay, and ...

Practically since the multi-drug resistant bacterium MRSA became a public health issue in the 1960s, health care has been arguing over how best to prevent its spread — particularly in hospitals, where ...