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		<title>MRSA Screening Cuts MRSA Infection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 18:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK government is ramping up measures to fight MRSA by screen more and more patients before they are admitted to hospital for planned procedures. MRSA is prevalent in the community and is particularly dangerous if allowed to spread within a hospital environment where people with weakened immune systems are even more vulnerable.]]></description>
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		<title>MRSA News</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Superbug Test Now Available in Europe

A test for detecting the superbug MRSA is now available in the European Union. Improved screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) should result with the introduction of this new test. The international drug developer Roche has claimed that the new test will help to prevent and control infections. ]]></description>
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		<title>David Fritzgerald Awarded Millions In MRSA Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Fritzgerald used to work as a maintenance man at a North Dallas apartment complex. In 2003 he developed a stomach ulcer that required surgery. After being admitted to RHD Memorial Medical Center in Farmers Branch, however, he contracted MRSA and within a month he was a quadruple amputee.
Linda Turley, Fritzgerald&#8217;s attorney, said on behalf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Phones Spread MRSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospital-Acquired MRSA
Recent research in the UK has found that mobile phones could be encouraging the spread of MRSA in hospitals. Mobile phones do not fall within the scope of hygiene restrictions in NHS hospitals and it is estimated that up to a quarter of phones carry infections such as MRSA. This unsettling discovery was made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Sponge Antidote To MRSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US researchers in South Carolina have made a startling discovery in their fight against superbugs like MRSA. Their research has found that a compound from a sea sponge was able to reverse antibiotic resistance in several strains of bacteria. Erstwhile resistant strains became once again sensitive to readily available antibiotics
Resensitising Resistant Bacteria To Antibiotics
Peter Moeller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MRSA Infection Lawsuits On The Increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical malpractice lawsuits over hospital acquired infections that include MRSA are increasing in the US.
In July, a Missouri couple was awarded $2.58 million after the husband contracted a MRSA infection when doctors inserted a pacemaker. As a result of the infection, the patient lost a kidney and a leg and a foot had to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenny George Infected With MRSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNC Asheville basketball player, Kenny George, has returned to Chicago after spending 3 months in hospital. Kenny developed a MRSA infection in his right foot and consequently had to undergo surgery to amputate part of it.
The basketball player was released from a hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, on 20th November 2008 and is back in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lincolnshire Hospitals Move To Screen All Patients For MRSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospitals in Lincolnshire, UK are fighting infections by screening patients for MRSA on admission. At the moment, Lincolnshire hospitals perform MRSA screenings on patients admitted as emergencies and other groups of patients depending on the procedures to be undertaken. They aim to screen all elective patients for MRSA on admission by March 2009.
The transmission of [...]]]></description>
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