EPA Warns on 'Cancer Alley'; COVID Emergency Extended; Supermarkets and Superbugs
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The Environmental Protection Agency warned Louisiana officials that Black residents living in "cancer alley," the 85-mile Mississippi River Chemical Corridor, face an especially... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - October 14, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
AHRQ: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Notice from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) allowing an additional 30 days for comments on revisions to the AHRQ Safety Program for Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Prevention. The purpose of the AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention is to reduce the incidence and prevalence of infections caused by MRSA in a variety of settings. Proposed revisions cover data collected by the ICU/Non-ICU, surgical services, and long-term care cohorts. Comments are now due by November 10, 2022. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - October 11, 2022 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Nationwide Children's spinoff gets FDA OK to test persistent pneumonia treatment in humans
Clarametyx Biosciences Inc. announced Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted the Columbus company ’s application to test the safety of its treatment for antibiotic-resistant infections, in both healthy volunteers and patients hospitalized with pneumonia. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 6, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Carrie Ghose Source Type: news
Africa: Answering the Challenges Posed by Antimicrobial Resistance
[allAfrica] Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin infection that can turn deadly if drug resistant. Estimates regarding the most common resistant variation, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), exceed 100,000 deaths globally in 2019. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 30, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Answering the Challenges Posed By Antimicrobial Resistance on the Continent
[IPS] Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin infection that can turn deadly if drug resistant. Estimates regarding the most common resistant variation, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), exceed 100,000 deaths globally in 2019. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 22, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Answering the Challenges Posed by Antimicrobial Resistance
We are failing to take antimicrobial resistance seriously, perhaps because it is not glamorous and relatable. Credit: Bigstock.By External SourceSep 21 2022 (IPS) Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin infection that can turn deadly if drug resistant. Estimates regarding the most common resistant variation, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), exceed 100,000 deaths globally in 2019.
But up until recently, we did not have a solid grasp on how much of a problem MRSA—or any other antimicrobial resistant pathogen—was in Africa. It turns out, after testing 187,000 samples from 14 countries for antibiot...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Africa Headlines Health Source Type: news
New drug can fight antibiotic resistant infections without causing them to evolve more defenses
A team at Peptilogics have developed a drug that can combat antibiotic resistant bacteria, potentially solving a medical crisis expected to kill around 50 million people in the coming decades. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Influence of pharmacists and infection control teams or antimicrobial stewardship teams on the safety and efficacy of vancomycin: A Japanese administrative claims database study
Conclusion: Pharmacologic management for individual patients, rather than assignment systems at facilities, is effective to reduce AKI and 30-day mortality with VCM administration. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Meticillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus transmission among healthcare workers, patients and the environment in a large acute hospital under non-outbreak conditions investigated using whole-genome sequencing
Conclusions: WGS detected numerous potential hospital MSSA TEs involving HCWs, patients and environmental contamination under non-outbreak conditions. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Breaking down antibiotic resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus : Combining antimicrobial photodynamic and antibiotic treatments.
The widespread use of antibiotics drives the evolution of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (ARB), threatening patients and healthcare professionals. Therefore, the development of novel strategies to combat resistance is recognized as a global healthcare priority. The two methods to combat ARB are development of new antibiotics or reduction in existing resistances. Development of novel antibiotics is a laborious and slow-progressing task that is no longer a safe reserve against looming risks. In this research, we suggest a method for reducing resistance to extend the efficacious lifetime of current antibiotics. Antimicrobia...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The use of behaviour change theory for infection prevention and control practices in healthcare settings: A scoping review
Background: Infection prevention and control (IPC) practices performed by healthcare workers are key to the prevention and management of infections. Compliance with IPC practices is often low, they are therefore commonly the focus of improvement interventions. Designing interventions that are based on behaviour change theories may help to improve compliance to practice. The aim of this review is to synthesise the evidence on the application of behaviour change theories to interventions to improve IPC practice in healthcare settings.
Methods: A scoping review was conducted following the Joanna Briggs Institute methodologic...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Do patients need advice and information to prevent infections - results of a single centre structured survey
Conclusion: Our data suggest a lack of information on infection prevention and control among patients and underline the importance of patient empowerment. The willingness of patients to pay personally for antiseptic wash should be assessed further. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Clinical implementation of routine whole-genome sequencing for hospital infection control of multi-drug resistant pathogens
Conclusions: Implementation of routine WGS for MDR pathogens in clinical laboratories is feasible and can enable targeted infection prevention and control interventions. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NHS patients struggling with superbugs to be offered poo transplants
Revolutionary treatment for C diff infections that transfers gut bacteria from healthy faeces given the green light by NiceHundreds of patients struggling to ward off superbugs are to be treated with poo transplants on the NHS using gut bacteria taken from healthy donors ’ faeces.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), the health regulator, has given the green light for a faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) to be offered to people who have been treated for two or more Clostridium difficile (C diff) infections without success.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 31, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Tags: Health NHS UK news Science National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Source Type: news
Faecal transplants recommended for Clostridium difficile
Clinical trials show they are more effective than antibiotics, to which the "superbug" can become resistant. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
