As part of its five-year national program to improve MRSA prevention practices across healthcare facilities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published a prevention toolkit for ICU ...

A group of five medical organizations have released updated recommendations for the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, transmission and infection. MRSA causes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a type of bacteria that can cause infections and is resistant to several antibiotics. Doctors and nurses sometimes refer to it as MRSA (which sounds like ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the severity of a medical injury to a former football player at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. Bacterial infections among students ...

Using germ-killing soap and ointment on all intensive-care unit (ICU) patients can reduce bloodstream infections by up to 44 percent and significantly reduce the presence of methicillin-resistant ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement developed a how-to guide on prevention MRSA infections in healthcare settings. The how-to guide, developed as part of IHI’s 5 Million Lives Campaign, includes ...

Researchers studying the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus found infants often develop infections before colonization is recognized or after undergoing decolonization efforts ...

MRSA is a type of bacteria that can be resistant to several antibiotics. MRSA might spread more easily in athletic settings. Preventing MRSA infections is crucial to athletes' health and safety. Skin ...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) introduced its Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Prevention Initiative in March 2007. [1] Since then, an interrupted time-series analysis [2] ...

Arlington, VA, January 5, 2017 -The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration's campaign to limit healthcare facility-associated infections (HAIs) of methicillin-resistant ...

"MRSA is different from the old staph aureus which was resistant to the old antibiotics such as Keflex because MRSA seems to go throught the skin easier than the old staph did," the surgeon said.