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...
Science Daily recently published an article on the discovery of a class of enzyme blockers called indole carboxylates that have the potential to extend and protect the efficacy of vital “last-resort” antibiotics called carbapenems. Carbapenems are a class of...
A group of researchers at A*STAR’s (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have identified a new protein to aid in wound healing and repair, according to an article published on Medical Xpress. Complications in the...
