Japan on Monday said it has detected its first case of an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" that surfaced in South Asia and has triggered a global health alert.

Japan on Monday said it has detected its first case of an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" that surfaced in South Asia and has triggered a global health alert.

One of the hardiest insects around, the cockroach, may hold the key to next-generation antibiotics, British scientists hope.

Team Sky on Saturday pulled out of the Tour of Spain following the death of masseur Txema Gonzalez.

Health officials are struggling to contain a major outbreak of anthrax in northern Bangladesh, with at least 52 new infections registered in the past week, the health ministry said Monday.

The World Health Organisation on Friday called on health authorities around the globe to monitor a multi-drug resistant superbug that surfaced in South Asia and spread to Britain.

France will start screening patients for the NDM-1 bacterium, an antibiotic-resistant superbug that has unleashed a health scare, a medical watchdog said on Tuesday.

Frozen fruit pulp used in smoothies tied to rare US outbreak of typhoid fever in West. A rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to a frozen tropical fruit product used to make smoothies, health officials reported Thursday.

"Health tourists" flocking to south Asia have carried a new class of antibiotic-resistant superbugs to Britain, researchers reported Wednesday, warning that the bacteria could spread worldwide.

"Health tourists" flocking to south Asia have carried a new class of antibiotic-resistant superbugs to Britain, researchers reported Wednesday, warning that the bacteria could spread worldwide.

Plastic surgery patients have carried a new class of superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics from South Asia to Britain and they could spread worldwide, researchers reported Wednesday.

Plastic surgery patients have carried a new class of superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics from South Asia to Britain and they could spread worldwide, researchers reported Wednesday.

Plastic surgery patients have carried a new class of superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics from South Asia to Britain and they could spread worldwide, researchers reported Wednesday.

Oh lighten up: Oregon residents report glow-in-the-dark pink shrimp from some stores. People who bought pink shrimp at some Oregon stores are reporting that it glows in the dark. Experts told The Register-Guard that they shouldn't worry because it's due to certain marine bacteria that can cause shrimp and other seafood to appear luminescent. They said it's not a health risk and does not indicate mishandling during processing.

State should do better job requiring hospitals to report infections. Nevada lawmakers eight years ago approved legislation that required hospitals to report ''sentinel'' events to the Nevada State Health Division, for the purpose of identifying unexpected occurrences so that the medical facilities could prevent their recurrence. By improving health care, hospitals could persuade more Southern Nevadans to visit the valley's medical facilities for treatment rather than seek alternatives out of state.It is obvious, though, that the law has not been followed. As reported Monday by the Sun's Marshall Allen in his ongoing investigation into lethal bacteria in Las Vegas hospitals, state billing records indicated 1,052 cases last year of patients who contracted either of two deadly, drug-resistant forms of bacteria known as MRSA or C. diff while hospitalized. Yet hospitals statewide reported only 75 infecti ons as sentinel events in 2009.

Hospitals should do more to protect patients from deadly bacteria. Today's stories by Sun reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards about patients who have become infected by lethal, drug-resistant bacteria during stays in Las Vegas Valley hospitals should serve as a wake-up call to those medical facilities that more needs to be done to improve patient safety. The rate of patients who contracted the contagious bacteria known in shorthand as MRSA rose by 34Êpercent in area hospitals from 2008 to 2009.State records available before 2008 do not indicate whether patients were infected in the hospital or had the infection when they were admitted. But the records show that 2,010 patients were infected with MRSA and Clostridium difficile, better known as C. diff, while hospitalized during the two-year period for which records are available, providing enough evidence to indicate a widespread problem that warrants immediate attention.

The Las Vegas Sun's reporting on lethal bacteria in hospitals is based on analysis of Nevada hospital data collected by the state from 1999 to 2009.

The Veterans Affairs Department is determined to eliminate the spread of MRSA within its facilities, and has virtually eliminated the infections within some of its hospitals.One reason for the VA's success: Every patient is swabbed upon admission to determine if he is infected with the resilient superbug, and, if so, is then separated from patients who are not.

Hospitals say they're fighting the spread of bacteria, but most don't want to release the results of those efforts. I have washed my hands more in hospitals during the past couple of years than I had ever done before. The signs are everywhere, telling us to do so, as a way to combat the spread of deadly bacteria that can infect not just the patients but even hospital visitors and employees.You would think with all the attention some hospitals give to the issue, the spread of drug-resistant bacteria in hospitals would be falling. But as you read today's Sun, you'll learn that the number of bacterial infections in our local hospitals is rising.

The rate of hospital-acquired cases of two lethal, drug-resistant bacteria, commonly known as MRSA and C. diff, increased at most Las Vegas-area hospitals in 2009 over 2008, top graph, according to billing records the hospitals provide to the state. Below, graphs show the rate of inpatient discharges, by hospital, indicating infections with MRSA and C. diff over an 11-year span. In this graph, the data do not show where or when the infection was acquired, meaning a patient could have entered the hospital with the condition.