News and PR

CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – MRSA Survivors Network, the prominent patient and consumer advocate organization are launching their new global awareness campaign – International MRSA Testing Week, April 1-7 , an annual designated observance to raise awareness for active detection (screening) for MRSA … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The ongoing MRSA epidemic continues to be a major global threat and MRSA emerged into the world over fifty years ago. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium spread and mutated for decades throughout Europe and … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Fifty years ago this October, MRSA emerged into the world and is now a major global epidemic and the most common cause of antimicrobial resistant pathogen healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in most U.S. healthcare facilities. … Continue reading →

Article originally published: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/world-mrsa-day-event-to-broadcast-live—october-1-2011-129366998.html CHICAGO, Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The third annual World MRSA Day kickoff event and Global MRSA Summit at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois on October 1, 2011 will broadcast live via web stream starting at 10:30 a.m. central time and can be … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The 3rd Annual World MRSA Day Kickoff Event and Global MRSA Summit will be held October 1, 2011 at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois. The 2011 Global theme is: ‘The … Continue reading →

Published June 30, 2011 by Blythe Bernhard –St. Louis Dispatch, interview with Jeanine Thomas Death certificates in Illinois will soon reflect what patient safety advocates say has been a secret killer — staph infections that are resistant to antibiotics. Under the … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The MRSA pandemic continues to be a major public health threat and crisis along with other antimicrobial-resistant pathogens and must become a top political priority worldwide. This year marks fifty years that MRSA emerged … Continue reading →

Project CLEAR – Randomized Clinical Trial Recruiting MRSA-Positive Adult Persons during Admissions to Orange County and Southern LA County Hospitals or Nursing Homes Project CLEAR (Changing Lives by Eradicating Antibiotic Resistance) is a clinical trial for persons recently discharged from … Continue reading →

MRSA – the public health disaster that kills more Americans every year than AIDS CHICAGO, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — MRSA Survivors Network urgently pleads with the Society of Healthcare Epidemiologists of America (SHEA) along with the Centers for Disease … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The ongoing MRSA epidemic continues to be a major global threat and MRSA was first discovered fifty years ago this year by the late professor Patricia Jevons of the U.K. in 1961. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus … Continue reading →