MRSA Is More Prevalent In Paediatric Healthcare Than Previously Thought - Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK

MRSA Is More Prevalent In Paediatric Healthcare Than Previously Thought - Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK
Birmingham Children's Hospital has introduced a new way of detecting the MRSA superbug amongst its most critically ill young patients. The test, developed by molecular diagnostics company Cepheid, has so far proven to be 100% accurate and is allowing doctors at the hospital to identify if a patient to be admitted to the ICU has MRSA within an hour.

Acute Cardiac Care 2008
Chest pain - or at worst a cardiac arrest - is invariably the prelude to one of the most critical episodes of health care. Acute cardiac care, that first emergency phase in which the chest pain is assessed and its cause treated, embraces a broad spectrum of diagnoses ranging from unstable angina to acute heart failure, from myocardial infarction (with or without ST elevation) to other life-threatening disorders of the heart.

Eating Whole Grains Lowers Heart Failure Risk, According To New Study
About 5 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure (HF). While some reports indicate that changes to diet can reduce HF risk, few large, prospective studies have been conducted. In a new study researchers observed over 14,000 participants for more than 13 years and found that whole grain consumption lowered HF risk, while egg and high-fat dairy consumption raised risk. Other food groups did not directly affect HF risk.

The Future Of Anti-Microbials Is Here
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" underscores the need for new drugs and therapies for protecting the public from pathogenic organisms. Since bacteria rapidly evolve to evade the action of new antibiotics, the drugs quickly lose their effectiveness. The prevalence of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) illustrates the severity of the problem.

New Treatment Targets Result From First Comprehensive Genomic Study Of The Common Cold
Scientists from Procter & Gamble (P&G), the University of Calgary and the University of Virginia have announced results from the first study to examine the entire human genome's response to the most common cold virus, human rhinovirus. The research confirmed, at the genomic level, that the immune system response to the virus, and not the virus by itself, results in common cold symptoms.