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- How to be safe from the MRSA superbug
- How to be safe from the MRSA superbugHow to be safe from the MRSA superbugIts nothing a little manuka honey can't cure.Most of this comes down to hand washing.Cleanliness will not solve everything, but it will stop most bugs dead in their tracks.Very true but you must be consistentMost people...
- Tags: MRSA
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Will MRSA change sport choices?
- Will MRSA change sport choices?He?While I do appreciate anybody's effort to increase public awareness of the MRSA, I don't really think that ZD NET forums/blogs is a proper venue to do so, especially when associated with N.F.L.
- Tags: MRSA
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Will MRSA change sport choices?
- There are things you can do to reduce the risk. Simple nose swabs can cut the infection rate 50%. Treating simple cuts more seriously will also help. But so will choosing a different sport. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Security, Strategy, Management, Treatment, Infection, MRSA, Games, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- MRSA still vulnerable to soap
- MRSA still vulnerable to soapSoap worksI agree! Soap does work. And, you don't have to use some super-duper antibiotic soap. 97% of all bacteria are beneficial to human development. Only 3% are harmful. For 60 years we have been trying to kill all the bacteria. It doesn't work! They just...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, bacteria, MRSA
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
- Colloidal silver touted as MRSA cure
- Colloidal silver touted as MRSA cureColloidal SilverTaken in part from wiki entry [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloidal_silver]here[/url][i]"...o As a supplementAdvocates of colloidal silver claim it to be a useful supplement to their diet, providing them with improved health and well being and among other things a low incidence of colds and flu.[citation needed] These...
- Tags: Federal government, Vertical industries, Benefits, FDA, MRSA
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- One Silicon Valley firm will cash in on MRSA scare
- But you wannabe day-traders are too late. The stock of Sunnyvale-based Cepheid has already more than doubled in the past six months. Cepheid makes gene-based testing systems for whatever nasty germ is fearsome right now. Their technology uses digital analysis of biochemical componets of micro-organisms as each...
- Tags: Public Health, MRSA, Cepheid, Healthcare, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- MRSA alarm is now nationwide, but many docs seem unconcerned
- MRSA alarm is now nationwide, but many docs seem unconcernedMRSA in the USI read this article and it was like reading something from the UK.....but five years ago. I suggest you all stop writing anything and Google our experience of MRSA so you can start from our body of...
- Tags: Insurance, MRSA
- Discussion threads 2007-10-26
- MRSA alarm is now nationwide, but many docs seem unconcerned
- Sure, our environment is full of the staph bacteria. But when the CDC recently reported the virulent MRSA form is killing more Americans annually than AIDS, the public noticed. Then cases began being reported from schools around the country. It seemed especially prevalent among high school football players....
- Tags: School, Hospital, MRSA, Healthcare, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- High school football under attack across America!
- There's a disorganized but effective attack on high school football in America. In fact, it's directly hitting the football players themselves. As the Center for Disease Control reported earlier this week, the virulent MRSA bacterium is becoming more widespread. And it really seems to have a thing...
- Tags: High School, Idaho, Football, Attack, MRSA, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- Forget global warming, stop MRSA terrorism and get rich
- Forget global warming, stop MRSA terrorism and get richNovel AntibioticsMRSA is a real problem. I work in a microbiology lab with a researcher who takes a particular interest in novel antibiotics, and have taken quite an interest in these little critters. I have learned alot from him but...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, SECURITY, global warming, MRSA, antibiotic, bacteria, ear infection
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Forget global warming, stop MRSA terrorism and get rich
- File this one under Law of Unintended Consequences. Everything you do will have some environmental effect you cannot forsee. Decades of antibiotic use and we now have some killer bacteria that are anti-antibiotic. That terrorizes me pretty well. They say the bacteria especialy like us...
- Tags: Infection, Terrorism, Bacteria, Global Warming, MRSA, Security, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Data Mining Physician Decisions for MRSA
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus MRSA is a type of bacteria that is resistant to most antibiotics. These antibiotics include methicillin and other more common antibiotics such as Septra, Cipro, Penicillin and Amoxicillin. MRSA occurs most frequently among persons in hospitals and healthcare facilities such as nursing homes and dialysis centers who...
- Tags: Antibiotics, MRSA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Data Mining, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
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- Does good Betsy McCaughey exist?
- all very interesting, but...Is ZDnet now a health-oriented web site? Should we start looking forward to more political articles?A Ph.D. is a doctorate[i]"When McCaughey uses the title ?Dr.,? it?s based on her Ph.D from Columbia. ... to refer to her as ?Dr. McCaughey,? is to endorse a deception."[/i]Sorry, Dana, but...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, SECURITY, Betsy McCaughey, deception, good Betsy McCaughey, doctorate, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Flu turns dangerous
- Flu turns dangerousEffect MeasurePreparation for this has been a topic of expert discussion over at http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure for several years.This flu is NOT turning dangeorusWe still have only had a HANDFUL of people die from this virus or get seriously sick. Stop with the 'doom and gloom' fear postings, PLEASE.... you...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, AIDS viru, flu, AIDS, vaccine, AIDS VACCINE
- Discussion threads 2009-07-19
- How to be safe from the MRSA superbug
- As the number of antibiotic-resistant bugs increases, and these bugs get into "the wild," as they will, we'll all have to start following new guidelines in our family lives to stay safe. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Infection, Hospital, SHEA, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Monty Python was right about hospitals
- Monty Python was right about hospitalsInsurance companies are glad...... to see people are ambulatory and able to move quickly from ICU to home. They are now trying to add outpatient emergency surgery in dining rooms to the list of cost saving methods.In England, because patients already in the ICU...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, ICU, hospital, Monty Python, health care, patient
- Discussion threads 2009-01-14
- Is our resident millennial a dinosaur, too?
- Or is touch really just a bad idea as an interface? Zack Whittaker, millennial extraordinaire and one of the few guys on the planet to really dig Vista, wrote an interesting piece yesterday decrying the problems with touch as a computing interface. I have to say that, while...
- Tags: Intel Classmate PC, Apple iPod, Screen, Keyboards, Digital Music, Monitors & Displays, Tablets, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Touch: the most evil technology in modern computing
- Touch: the most evil technology in modern computingRE: Touch: the most evil technology in modern computingWell, it all depends. When it's my nine-year-old's sticky fingers, it bugs me a lot more when it's my own. I think the trick is the surface you are touching.Buggy..."Having people's messy hands...
- Tags: Keyboards, Mice, evil technology, modern computing, keyboard, computing
- Discussion threads 2009-01-12
- Touch: the most evil technology in modern computing
- Back in the days when computing use was innocent; we'd use our hands to communicate via devices called "keyboards" and "mice" to make the computer do something. Now with the new wave of technology striking us at our very core being, touch-screen technology is taking off like Obama's Blackberry craze....
- Tags: Touch Screen, Microsoft Surface, Theory, Computing, Technology, N-Trig, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Antibiotics before the infection?
- Overuse has resulted in antibiotic resistant strains like MRSA running riot in hospitals, threatening patients. Now hospitals are being told to administer them absent infection. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Infection, Patient, Antibiotics, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
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