Why Canada hasn’t been getting the new antibiotics we need to fight drug-resistant ‘superbugs’ According to Medical Xpress, more than a quarter of infections in Canada fail to respond to standard antibiotics due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). And...
Knee replacement in folks over 80: Less risky than you think A new study shared by Medical Xpress found that knee replacement surgery in patients over 80 years old isn’t as hazardous for them as assumed. Study author Priscilla Varghese, a medical student at SUNY...
Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars According to an article recently shared by Kaiser Health News (KHN), the federal government has penalized 764 hospitals for having the highest amount of patient infections and...
Sask. doctor worries about health system as Omicron numbers rise The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) recently reported on the growing strain that Saskatchewan hospitals are facing as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Comparatively to other provinces such as...
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis Bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the leading public health threats of the 21st century. The UK Government commissioned a Review on Antimicrobial...
Superbug MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before clinical use of antibiotics. In an article recently shared by ScienceDaily, researchers have found evidence that a type of the antibiotic resistant superbug MRSA arose in nature long before antibiotics were used in humans...
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