From the annual scientific meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, San Diego
It might be time for North Americans to follow the British in their 2007 ban on white lab coats in the health care setting, according to findings presented during a poster session today at the at annual meeting of SHEA. Researchers [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘MRSA’
March 21, 2009
Time to Bag the White Coats?
November 21, 2008
The Numbers Game
Meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee, College Park, MD
We like to think that medicine is science, that science is based on numbers, and that numbers don’t lie. Mark Twain once famously observed though that there are “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” I was reminded of Mr. Clemens’ quip this morning [...]
October 28, 2008
Another Brick in the Wall
From the joint annual meeting of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Washington
Add another brick in the wall of MRSA drug resistance. Today Dr. Miguel Sanchez reported on an outbreak of linezolid-resistant MRSA this year at the Hospital Clinico San Carlos in Madrid during a press conference and [...]
