News tagged with blood poisoning

Saving lives with fast sepsis testing

Blood poisoning can be fatal. If you suffer from sepsis, you used to have to wait as much as 48 hours for laboratory findings. A new diagnostic platform as big as a credit card will now supply the analysis ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Australia's inner cities still contaminated with lead

A research article published this week in the international journal Environmental Pollution contends that large tracts of land in the older inner-city suburbs of Australia’s cities remain contaminated with above-acceptable levels ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify what makes MRSA lethal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying the so-called "superbug" MRSA have identified one of the components responsible for making it so deadly.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers make blood poisoning breakthrough

(PhysOrg.com) -- The lives of millions of people struck down by blood poisoning - or sepsis - could be saved after a team of researchers, including an expert from the University of Glasgow, made a medical breakthrough in ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 04, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clustering MRSA in Europe indicates diffusion through regional health-care networks

A new study finds that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) -responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections including blood poisoning and pneumonia and a particular problem in hospitals - occurs in dis ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Resistance to antibiotics can be drawback for bacteria

Neisseria meningitidis, the meningococcus, is a bacterium that can cause diseases with high fatality rates, and there has therefore been considerable concern that, like other bacteria, it might become resistant to antibiotics. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Killer catfish? Venomous species surprisingly common, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Name all the venomous animals you can think of and you probably come up with snakes, spiders, bees, wasps and perhaps poisonous frogs. But catfish?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Reduced skin infections in Northern Australian Aboriginal children

A community-based program aimed at reducing the burden of skin disease across remote communities in Australia's Northern Territory has been successful according to a study published November 24 in the open-access journal ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

CDC: Lead dust in cars source of kids' poisoning

(AP) -- Some childhood lead poisonings in Maine last year came from an unusual source - lead dust tracked into the family car.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers probe mechanisms of infection

A newly discovered receptor in a strain of Escherichia coli might help explain why people often get sicker when they're stressed.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0