Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) News

• New Strategy Identifies Superior Pathogen Variants A simple model projected which strains were likely to be highly transmissible, with implications for public health.
  Medscape Medical News, February 18, 2025
• New European Patient Forum Paper Highlights AMR Challenges The European Union remained behind target for reducing antimicrobial resistance.
  Medscape Medical News, January 23, 2025
• Canada Takes One Health Approach to Antimicrobial Resistance Canadian researchers are collaborating across disciplines to find new solutions to antimicrobial resistance.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2024
• Do Antibiotics Worsen Lung Immunity During Flu? In hospitalized patients, eosinophil levels positively correlated with antibiotic use, systemic inflammation, and worsened outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2024
• Nasal S aureus Carriage Linked to Surgical Infections A large prospective study suggests that nasal decolonization could be a simple intervention to reduce surgical site and blood infections.
  Medscape Medical News, September 25, 2024
• How These Young MDs Impressed the Hell Out of Their Bosses We asked physician supervisors to tell us stories about young doctors who went above and beyond in surprising ways — and what we can learn from them.
  Medscape Medical News, April 24, 2024
• ECO 2024 AI Identifies Two Natural Bioactive GLP-1 Compounds Two bioactive, natural-derived compounds, which show activity at the GLP-1R site, may be orally administered with fewer side effects than their pharmaceutical counterparts.
  Medscape Medical News, March 29, 2024
• AAD 2024 During Pregnancy, Many Drugs Safe for Skin Infections Several drugs should be avoided or used with caution because of potential risks during pregnancy, a dermatologist told colleagues.
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2024
• How the New MRSA Antibiotic Cracked AI's 'Black Box' Researchers who uncovered a fresh class of antibiotics used a new process — explainable AI — that could propel drug discovery.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2024
• Harvard Docs Train Ukrainian Counterparts 2 Years Into War Boston program aimed to mentor specialists whose medical education was forged in the remnants of the old Soviet system.
  Medscape Medical News, February 06, 2024
• Infections Down in Acute Care Hospitals Prevention strategies to reduce healthcare-associated infections are having an effect, according to a new report on national- and state-level incidence.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• Today’s Start-ups Provide Insight into the Future of Healthcare
  Univadis, October 17, 2023
• Newer Antibiotic Effective Against Deadly Staph Infection An antibiotic already in use in Europe to treat pneumonia controlled deadly bloodstream infections with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria just as effectively as the most powerful antibiotic currently in use, according to data from a late-stage trial.
  Reuters Health Information, September 27, 2023
• New Antibiotic Could Combat Multidrug-Resistant Superbugs The antibiotic acts on not one but three molecules that are essential to the construction of bacterial walls.
  Medscape Medical News, September 15, 2023
• Red-Cell Donors' Sex Does Not Affect Transfusion Survival New data contradict previous findings but do not rule out differences in outcome based on donor sex.
  Medscape Medical News, April 17, 2023
• Antibiotic Use Decreased, Resistance Stable in Germany Despite favorable developments in the use of antibiotics, more than 35,000 people die every year in Europe from antibiotic-resistant infections.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2022
• Patient Safety in Hospitals Improved in Past Decade: Report Only a handful of outcome measures are cited in the Leapfrog Group's patient safety report, but the results jibe with other studies; widespread adoption of CPOE is considered a factor in improvement.
  Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2022
• New Technology a Sepsis Breakthrough? Experts expressed hope that, with additional research, the new testing method could eventually cut the time for sepsis detection from days to hours, potentially saving lives.
  Medscape Medical News, October 06, 2022
• Asymptomatic Infections Drive Many Epidemics To stem epidemics, we need to better identify asymptomatic carriers.
  Medscape Medical News, September 01, 2022
• Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Emerging in Community Settings Ten percent of individuals found with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales had no healthcare exposure.
  Medscape Medical News, August 04, 2022