http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria, or so-called hospital superbugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-hydrogen-peroxide-vapor-hospital-disinfection.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 01 Jan 2013 07:41:37 EST news276248484 (Medical Xpress)—For babies, the trip from the womb to the outside world is a transition from a blank, sterile slate to host for what will eventually be trillions of microscopic organisms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cheap-simple-bacteria-newborns-deadly.html Medical research Fri, 02 Nov 2012 08:08:17 EST news271062481 For six months last year, a deadly outbreak of antibiotic-resistant bacteria kept infection-control specialists at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Clinical Center in a state of high alert. A New York City patient carrying a multi-drug resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a microbe frequently associated with hospital-borne infections, introduced the dangerous bacteria into the 243-bed research hospital while participating in a clinical study in the summer of 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-genome-sequencing-quell-bacterial-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:27:29 EST news264864440 Drug dispensing robots designed to quickly prepare intravenous medications in a sterile environment can harbor dangerous bacteria, according to a report in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-bacterial-contamination-pharmacy-robots.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:20:23 EST news252757209 A drug candidate that has shown promise for neutralizing dangerous bacteria also prevents the parasite that causes malaria from growing, new research by a Yale University team headed by Nobel laureate Sidney Altman shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-compound-halts-growth-malaria-parasite.html Medical research Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:00:17 EST news252585368 Treatment areas of ambulances fared well when tested for dangerous bacteria, according to a new study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Approximately six percent of sites sampled in Chicago-area ambulances tested positive for Staphyloccocus aureus (S. aureus), a bacterium that can cause serious infections and can easily acquire resistance to potent antibiotics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-resistant-bacteria-chicago-area-ambulances.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:40:02 EST news252232044 At a time when most new moms are bonding with their babies, Cheri Stout-Robinson was hospitalized for treatment of flesh-eating bacteria. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-war-hospital-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:50:01 EST news242383028 Residential washing machines may not always use hot enough water to eliminate dangerous bacteria like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Acinetobacter, a Gram-negative bacteria, from hospital uniforms, according to a study published in the November issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-residential-washers-hospital-acquired-bacteria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:30:14 EST news236860179 More than 60 percent of hospital nurses' and doctors' uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-doctors-nurses-hospital-uniforms-dangerous.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:50:21 EST news234003000 Cell phones used by patients and their visitors were twice as likely to contain potentially dangerous bacteria as those of healthcare workers (HCW), according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-dangerous-bacteria-cell-hospital-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 31 May 2011 11:42:01 EST news226060901