Research has found that the flooring, invented more than 100 years ago, has natural bacteria-killing properties. It means bugs such as MRSA and salmonella cannot live or breed on the surface.

Once it gets into the body, through wounds or medical tubes, it can cause an infection that could kill someone already weakened by illness. In Britain, it is estimated that MRSA and other ...

What singles MRSA out from other bacteria is that it cannot be killed by the standard antibiotic methicillin (a synthetic form of penicillin). In the 1940s, 95 per cent of staphylococcus aureus ...

By ostensibly putting itself first, America is really dragging the world back to a leaderless, atomized era that undermined ...

STEM professors at USF are teaching in new ways — emphasizing collaboration between different classes, adding unexpected ...

Adults who are hospitalized require treatment with different antibiotics. Your healthcare provider will choose an antibiotic depending on whether you are infected with methicillin-resistant ...

Authors present results from a national surveillance in Japan that found MRSA strains causing bloodstream infections are predominantly from three clonal lineages. They also identified the ...

An alarming number of residents in nursing homes for veterans are susceptible to acquiring a superbug after admission, with over one-third already ...

Oregon hospitals have reported a modest decline in health care-associated infections (HAIs) among patients in 2023, according ...

Elevated IL-26 levels in the nose of smokers with and without COPD may provide a simple method for early detection and ...