Medications
FDA approves new antibiotic against UTIs
As many patients already know, urinary tract infections (UTIs) can recur despite the use of antibiotics.
Apr 25, 2024
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News tagged with hospital infections
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Computer prompts could reduce empiric antibiotic use for UTI
For non-critically ill patients with urinary tract infection (UTI), computerized provider order entry (CPOE) prompts providing patient- and pathogen-specific multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) risk estimates can reduce empiric ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Klebsiella pneumoniae: An opportunistic pathogen harmless to some, but causes severe disease in others
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common species of bacteria found in our bodies—and may even be lurking in your gut, mouth or nose right now. But it's also a notoriously harmful bacteria that can make us very ill.
Mar 30, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study shows potential for using AI tools to detect health care-associated infections
A new proof-of-concept study published in the American Journal of Infection Control reports that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can accurately identify cases of health care-associated infections (HAI) even in complex ...
Mar 14, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Controlling respiratory syncytial virus: Real-life data from Luxembourg
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the main reasons leading to hospitalization among young children worldwide and each year, an estimated 101,000 children below the age of 5 years die due to RSV infections. Since ...
Jan 29, 2024
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Medical research
New species of bacteria discovered in unusual human infection
Researchers at King's and Guy's & St Thomas' have discovered a new species of bacteria, now called Variovorax durovernensis, living within a patient at St. Thomas' Hospital.
Jan 18, 2024
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Health
Private equity acquisition of hospitals may increase adverse events
Hospital-acquired adverse events are increased in association with private equity acquisition of hospitals, according to a study published in the Dec. 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Jan 1, 2024
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Health informatics
Graph neural networks: A new frontier in predicting hospital infections
Researchers at the University of Geneva have made a groundbreaking stride in health care technology, as detailed in their study published in Health Data Science.
Nov 28, 2023
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Health
One death, 10 hospitalizations in listeria outbreak tied to peaches, plums
Peaches, nectarines and plums tainted with Listeria have caused one death and put 10 people in the hospital with food poisoning across seven states, federal officials say.
Nov 21, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Estimating hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections in England
An estimated 95,000–167,000 inpatients at English National Health Service (NHS) hospitals caught SARS-CoV-2 while in hospital during England's "second wave" of COVID-19, between June 2020 and March 2021, reports a paper, ...
Oct 24, 2023
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