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POPSThe MRSA Virus Blog Base Our blog allows you to recieve free information on the MRSA Virus. Gain information on MRSA statistics, treatment and lots more.
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POPSAdvice on the MRSA Virus Learn all about the MRSA virus by checking out this MRSA blog. Details include the symptoms, treatment options, and lots more information.
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POPSAncient Antibiotics Making a Comeback Healing with honey. Awesome. I was just reading about the healing properties of honey when you have a cold- that medical scientists are discovering that it is more than just a throat-soother when you have a cold and cough... it may actually help you get better faster.
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POPSTheravance Antibiotic Data: Looks Good These data look pretty good. Televancin met its main goal of being statistically the same as vancomycin, the standard of care, in ventilator pneumonia. This is a pretty tough illness for a new drug. It's a good sign that the cure rate comes in numerically higher for televancin, although I'd quibble with the quote in the press release from Ralph Corey of Duke University. Saying a difference is clinically meaningful when it's not statistically significant is a little misleading. We don't know for sure the difference isn't due to the play of chance. However, in a secondary analysis, televancin did beat vancomycin. That could encourage doctors to use this drug. Definately one to watch. Shares leapt 8% in aftermarket trading.
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POPSFew Hospitals screen patients for Staph Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, have passed laws to make hospitals test for staph. Testing is supposed to be expensive, but the cost may not seem that great, when compared to the treatment of cases that are a result of spread. When in hospital I've noticed the Nurses generally do the work and Doctors claim the credit. Nurses, cannot prescribe medicines. Nurses are likely to be on salaries or wages, while Doctors seem to get paid by the case, generally by the patient, or a health insurance company. Could MRSA be a 'Cash Cow'?
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POPSParents panic over MRSA "Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says extreme measures to 'disinfect' an environment such as a school really are not the most important procedure in controlling the transmission of MRSA. Dr. Srinivasan says while it is understandable that people are concerned it must be emphasised that MRSA is a common cause of skin infection and almost all of these infections are readily treated by commonly available antibiotics and by draining the lesions. Dr. Srinivasan says that hand hygiene is by far the best means to prevent the spread of all diseases. Experts say the key to dealing with MRSA is early diagnosis and then the completion of a full course of antibiotic treatment. The public needs to watch for wounds that do not heal and are not helped with normal antibiotic treatment."
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