Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their chances of succumbing to the infection, if results of a new preliminary study can be replicated in a larger study...

Genetically closely related skin bacteria that have developed resistance to several different antibiotics and that can cause intractable care-related infections are found and seem to be spreading within and between hospitals in Sweden. This is established by Micael Widerstrom in the doctoral dissertation he is defending at Umea University in Sweden...

School and day care closures due to the 2009 pandemic of H1N1 flu weren't a big problem for most parents, researchers found.

In a nationwide poll only 3% of caregivers said their children's dismissal caused major disruptions in family routines, according to Gillian K. Steelfisher, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues.

The majority -- 75% -- said the closures...