Thanks to constant reader Pat Gardiner, we have the transcript of the UK House of Lords discussion on community MRSA, called there PVL-MRSA after the toxin. (Go to the linked page, and click down to the time-mark 3.16 pm.) It’s encouraging to see some members of a government taking MRSA seriously. The members are asking [...]
The UK’s Sunday Express takes note today of “pig MRSA” ST398 (full post archive here) in a story that is both somewhat alarmist and oddly incomplete, since it misses a piece of news that I told you about here last June.
The Express story raises the alarm over ST 398 in pigs in the Netherlands, colonizing [...]
Constant readers, I am at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, where there is a lot of news about MRSA in hospitals. I hope to post on that over the next few days.
In the meantime, though, I want to pass on several pieces of news about ST398, the “pig strain” [...]
Here is a story that was flagged by several commenters (welcome, Canadian readers), and is being reported by a number of Canadian news outlets: A nurse who worked in the critical care unit at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. has died, possibly of MRSA, and the Ontario Ministry of Labor is investigating whether her death [...]
Serendipitously, as I was preparing the previous post (an intro to GlobalPost.com, which will be featuring posts from SUPERBUG), an auto-push email from the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed service landed in my inbox.
For those of you whose bedtime reading is not obscure medical journals (I know: This is what you have me for), PubMed [...]
Constant readers, you’ll note that posting has slowed down a bit: I am deep into a chapter that is giving me some difficulty. (And I seem to be playing holiday host to an unexpected bout of bronchitis. I’m sure I didn’t need both lungs…)
But here’s something that crossed my monitor this morning, and it’s worth [...]
Via the BBC comes a report, from a conference hosted by the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, that some healthcare-infection experts in the UK are publicly questioning efforts to reduce hospital-acquired MRSA.
The argument is that, by focusing so tightly on MRSA, hospitals neglect other drug-resistant HAIs to such an extent that the overall rate of illness [...]
Via the Guardian comes news that British hospitals are failing miserably at hygiene and infection-control targets set by the Healthcare Commission, a government-funded but independent watchdog agency somewhat analogous to the United States’ Joint Commission (formerly called JCAHO).
While community-associated MRSA is still a somewhat new story in the the UK, hospital or nosocomial MRSA is [...]
There are several new and important reports out on hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) that I hope to get to this week, but I spotted something today that I just had to highlight first:
Constant readers may know that I’ve done a lot of reporting in the developing world. In parts of Asia and Africa, it is assumed [...]
Last Wednesday was the first day of the new federal fiscal year, and therefore the day on which HHS’s new “non-reimbursement for medical errors” rule went into effect. Under this new rule (blogged here and here and covered in this New York Times story), the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will no longer reimburse [...]
MRSA in the House of Lords — the silly, the serious
0 CommentsBritish newspaper discovers ST398, says no UK cases – incorrect
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