http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study from Columbia University School of Nursing supports a growing body of evidence that women are less likely to contract bloodstream or surgical site infections than their male counterparts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-nursing-women-men-health-care-associated-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 May 2013 16:12:33 EST news289149146 According to a new study published online today, most patients at risk for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) agree that healthcare workers should be reminded to wash their hands, but little more than half would feel comfortable asking their physicians to wash. The study is published in the December issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. The study points to the need for patient empowerment to improve hand hygiene of healthcare workers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-patients-shy-healthcare-workers.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:10:34 EST news271941025 Sepsis, or bacterial infection of the bloodstream, is a grave, hard-to-diagnose threat in premature newborns in the NICU. Even when it's detected and treated with antibiotics, its inflammatory effects can harm fragile babies' development. Now, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have modeled the effects of sepsis on the unique newborn immune system, using mice. They and others have begun using the model to identify diagnostic markers and better treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-sepsis-newborns.html Medical research Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:00:06 EST news266169400 Henry Ford Hospital researchers have found that the presence of excess protein in a common urine test is an effective prognostic marker of acute renal failure in patients with severe sepsis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-urine-dipstick-accurate-predictor-renal.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 14 May 2012 10:00:01 EST news256207102 An analysis of the genome of a superbug has yielded crucial, novel information that could aid efforts to counteract the bacterium's resistance to an antibiotic of last resort. The results of the research led by scientists from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) are published in the Sept. 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-genomic-analysis-superbug-clues-antibiotic.html Medical research Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:07:01 EST news234698785