Medical technology company Becton Dickson & Co. (BD) says it received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for a two-hour test to identify strains of staph infections. The company s San ...

Shares of Becton Dickinson hit an all-time high yesterday after the company won the right to market the first rapid blood test that can distinguish between deadly, drug-resistant staph infections and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A company that harnesses bacteria-killing viruses said on Saturday it has devised a test that can detect dangerous staph infections within hours. This could allow doctors to ...

Researchers have developed a rapid color-changing test that can distinguish between different strains of golden staph, including those likely to be virulent and antibiotic resistant. Golden staph is a ...

Using rapid diagnostic tests and algorithms to make suggestions on how to best use antibiotics helped reduce the amount of days people needed to stay on them, a new report finds. The study was ...

CHICAGO, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Becton, Dickinson and Co on Wednesday said it received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a test to identify the presence of two deadly ...

Becton, Dickinson and Co on Wednesday said it received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a test to identify the presence of two deadly healthcare-associated infections: ...

Researchers have developed a faster and more effective method of detecting Staphylococcus aureus (golden staph) infections than traditional, resource-intensive tests. Using a process called mass ...

Antibiotic-resistant infections should be easier to detect, and hospitals could become safer, thanks to a technology developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Northern ...

It's a silent, nationwide epidemic. Virulent, drug-resistant strains of staphylococcus bacteria are rapidly spreading in many communities. Implicated in 126,000 hospitalizations a year, the germ can ...

A new bioengineered drug candidate demonstrated superior performance to a standard antibiotic at treating mice infected with Staphylococcus aureus, according to results from early testing published ...