
Heart imaging software among innovations ‘fast-tracked’ for NHS use
A scheme aims to improve patient access to some of the latest advances in technology.
A scheme aims to improve patient access to some of the latest advances in technology.
“Scientists in the UK have discovered a new strain of MRSA that appears to spread to humans from cattle and can cause life-threatening illness,” reported The Guardian. It said that a study of dairy herds had found the drug-resistant strain in cows'…
New research has mapped the way that MRSA “superbug” bacteria spread, BBC News has reported. The results suggest that antibiotic-resistant bacteria may often spread from large, inner-city hospitals to smaller regional ones when patients are…
More families of patients who died in hospital have complained they were not told their loved-ones had MRSA.
Victims of MRSA burst into a hospital wearing cleaning outfits and carrying mops to raise awareness of the problem for a TV documentary.
People who play contact sports are more than twice as likely as those who play non-contact sports to carry MRSA, research has found.
A common antibiotic is helping a deadly superbug spread through hospitals, according to research.
A new strain of the MRSA "superbug" has been found in the milk of British cows as well as swab samples taken from humans.
The family of a pensioner who died of MRSA only found out she had the superbug after reading her death certificate.
A hospital failed to inform a family that their dying mother had MRSA.