MRSA Notes

I ran across this item today, and thought I would mention it, since I had silver on the brain earlier this week, as well as food storage. This is the Fresher Longer Miracle Food Storage, from The Sharper Image. Wow. Here are the features: Patent-pending silicone-gasket locking system and impermeable polypropylene containers keep out oxidizing [...]

This is a video about MDR-TB, which is Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, and is absolutely frightening when you watch it and keep MRSA in mind. The video is filmed in Peru (and is narrated by Brad Pitt, which is how I came across it in the first place), where there were documented cases in the [...]

Hello everyone, I am Maureen Daly. My mom was Johanna Daly. She is mentioned in the Forbes article. I can not tell you what it means to my family and I to finally see the name of the hospital where Mom acquired the infections in print. I am so very grateful to Forbes and Robert [...]

“We really are in a desperate situation. We need more bullets, and we need them yesterday,” says John Quale, who treats drug-resistant infections at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. “The bacteria are winning right now,” adds Paul Miller, who directs antibiotic research at Pfizer. Robert Moellering, an infectious-disease specialist [...]

According to the Navy Region Southwest (NRSW) Food Services Office, the time is here to watch out extra carefully for bacterial food illnesses such as salmonella and staphylococcus that occur due to improper food handling. Here are a few items that will hopefully jog your memory and remind you to be careful while barbecuing this [...]

The International Society of Microbial Resistance (ISMR) is focusing attention, and educating healthcare professionals, on the rising prevalence and consequences of a relatively new family of antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), through a new 2006 MRSA Educational Summit Program. MRSA can cause serious infections in otherwise healthy newborns, children, and adults. Outbreaks [...]

Infection Control Today recognizes something different about the MRSA that is showing up in our communities and is encouraging medical staff to pay attention, to culture all wounds and test for drug sensitivities before choosing a treatment. “The other thing that’s interesting about this organism is that we don’t understand the role of the environment, [...]

From the people I have spoken with involved in the U.S. prison systems, I truly believe that the staff, as well as the inmates, work harder to prevent infections than they do in our hospitals and medical facilities – well, some of them anyway, I would be remiss to make those broad assumptions about all [...]

A question I hear frequently: Why is silver used in bandages now and will that cure my MRSA? Silver has been used for centuries as an antibacterial and as more antibiotics have been created and have been made accessible to the population, silver has fallen out of favor, as do many old fashioned products and [...]

On June 7, Quick-Med Technologies will be presenting their new technology, NIMBUS, to a Congressional caucus on hospital infection prevention in the 21st century as a possible solution to preventing hospital acquired infections. About NIMBUS: The NIMBUS technology employs a powerful microbicidal agent that can be permanently bonded to materials such as cotton, rayon or [...]

Traditional hospitals, some with tremendously high rates of surgical site infections could (and should) take a lesson from ambulatory care centers, as they boast traditionally much less, even zero sometimes, rates of surgical site infections. There are many theories why this is: One theory suggests that patients are in a healthier environment to begin with [...]

This scares the hell out of me, even without the involvement of cancer and makes me once again so grateful that we were so lucky. From Acorn-online: Since first being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, Darien resident Dot Driscoll has undergone a mastectomy, endured chemotherapy, suffered from a staphylococcus infection in her spine that [...]

The Morris Daily Herald has an article about the newest doctor in Morris, Illinois, an Infectious Disease specialist by the name of Dr. John Bolden. Bolden said one of the more important aspects of his position is infection control in the hospital. Especially scary is MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. It’s becoming more common in [...]

Proper hygiene is well recognized as the most effective way to avoid MRSA of all types. Many studies are done all of the time on the proper methods and products to use to effectively remove bacteria from your hands and bodies. The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of revamping its recommendations for [...]

In talking to people who have struggled with MRSA for over a year now, I hear inspirational stories a lot, but this one is quite an awe inspiring one. Dream Mom has been blogging about caring for her disabled teenaged son (Dear Son) for several months now. Dear Son, who has battled MRSA before, battled [...]

I am not sure why cleanliness in hospitals is such an issue, but it sure is – both here in the United States and abroad. I imagine this is something that has been taken for granted for a long time. While hospitals cannot cut corners in many areas, unfortunately cleanliness is one where they can, [...]