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Dear College Students: Essential Tips to Avoid Getting Sick on Campus
- Deanna Neff HealthDay Reporter
- October 13, 2025
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The college experience is a whirlwind of late nights, crowded dorms and shared spaces -- a perfect storm for germs.
Getting sick can get in the way of work and play and could hurt academic performance.
And with students living in close quarters, upper respiratory i...
New Means Found For Treating Blood Staph Infections
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- August 14, 2025
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A new way to battle bloodborne staph infections could help save lives while combating the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to new clinical trial results.
Two intravenous doses of the antibiotic dalbavancin delivered seven days apart worked just as well as...
Hospital Patients Can Bring 'Superbugs' Home
- HealthDay Reporter
- Dennis Thompson
- August 9, 2024
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Patients discharged from a hospital stay are bringing antibiotic-resistant “superbugs†home with them, a new study warns.
Family members of...
New Antibiotic Could Help Fight Resistant Staph Infections
- HealthDay Reporter
- Cara Murez
- September 28, 2023
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New research shows that an antibiotic effective for bacterial pneumonia also appears to fight treatment-resistant staph infections.
The drug is ceftobiprole. It appeared successful in fighting methicillin-resistant staph infections, sometimes called MRSA. It showed simil...
Hispanic, Black Americans on Dialysis Face Higher Risks for Dangerous Infections
- HealthDay Reporter
- Dennis Thompson
- February 7, 2023
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Kidney disease patients on dialysis are 100 times more likely to contract a dangerous blood infection than people not receiving the treatment -- and that risk is borne primarily by Hispanic and Black Americans, U.S. government health officials say.
Hispanic patients are ...
A Probiotic May Equal Antibiotics in Fighting Staph Infection
- HealthDay Reporter
- Amy Norton
- January 20, 2023
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A probiotic supplement appears to clear the body of a type of bacteria that can cause serious antibiotic-resistant infections, a new study finds.
Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbug' Now Widespread in Pigs, Can Jump to Humans
- HealthDay Reporter
- Cara Murez
- June 29, 2022
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A strain of the superbug MRSA has emerged in pigs that is highly resistant to antibiotics and a growing cause of human infections.
University of Cambridge researchers said this particular strain of
UTIs, Sepsis, Staph: COVID Is Upping Rates of Other Hospital Infections
- HealthDay Reporter
- Amy Norton
- September 2, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a resurgence in other infections that strike hospitalized patients, a U.S. government study finds.
The study, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, highlights the broad toll the pandemic has taken. It found that rates o...