Complete MRSA coverage

November 18, 2007

Sloppiness can increase risk during procedures

If a medical clinician's techniques are sloppy, almost any procedure - from a dental filling to a yearly colonoscopy to minor surgery by a podiatrist - can go from routine to risky, experts say.

October 18, 2007

How to avoid, identify and treat staph germ

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has calculated that a drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA is responsible for more than 94,000 serious infections in the United States each year. Q. What is MRSA?