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Study: 6 pounds of bacteria live on 200-pound person
WASHINGTON (AP) — They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Medical Specialization, Biology, Colleges and Universities, Stanford University
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Consumer Reports: Tests Show Ground Turkey Bacteria Resistant To Antibiotics
In its first lab analysis of ground turkey products, Consumer Reports found potential disease-causing organisms in most of the samples it tested, more than half of which proved resistant to more than three antibiotic drug classes. Consumer Reports tested...Tags: E. coli Infection, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Safety at School, Food and Drug Administration, Salmonella Infection
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Superbug study: 'Universal' MRSA control may make the most sense
Using antibacterial soap and ointments to treat all patients in an intensive care unit — not just those who test positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA — reduced presence of the antibiotic-resistant superbug by 37%...
Tags: Disease Prevention, Science and Technology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Diseases and Illnesses, Hospitals and Clinics
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Antibiotics in livestock raising concerns up the food chain
While Sam Spitz's friends were loading up on pizza for lunch, the Whitney Young High School sophomore opted for a chicken Caesar salad. Spitz was in training for a big sophomore baseball season — after having pitched on the school's varsity team...
Tags: European Union, McCormick Place, U.S. Congress, Consumers, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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RPT-FEATURE-Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug
ReutersBy Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year...Tags: Wyeth, Yeast Infection, Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia, Boil (skin condition)
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Health officials consider increasing plastic surgery center oversight
Maryland health officials may ask state lawmakers for permission to oversee plastic surgery centers, a move inspired in part by the death of a Lochearn woman after liposuction.
The state health department had already been considering whether to ask...Tags: Social Issues, Surgery, Strep Throat, Liposuction, Hospitals and Clinics
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Another vaccine fails to prevent staph infections, study finds
Staph infections remain a significant problem for hospital patients, and scientists are trying to develop vaccines to prevent Staphylococcus aureus bacteria from establishing itself in vital areas like the heart, lungs or blood. But it’s turning out...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Disease Prevention, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Preventative Medicine
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Bill to increase oversight of cosmetic surgery centers making late push in Assembly
A bill to give health regulators more oversight of facilities like the now-closed Monarch Medspa in Timonium is making a late surge in the General Assembly after weeks of discussions among state and industry officials. The House of Delegates...
Tags: Personal Service, Surgery, Local Government, Cosmetic Procedures, Strep Throat
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Microbe vs. microbe: Sharing bacteria at the roller derby
What happens in a day at the roller derby? For one thing, scientists have discovered and reported Tuesday in the journal PeerJ, a lot of bacteria get swapped around. Researchers at the University of Oregon's Biology and Built Environment Center, a...
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Big pharma: Few new antibiotics in the works
Thirty years ago, when the world faced the terrifying prospect of an untreatable disease known as AIDS, big drugmakers saw an opportunity and raced to develop new medicines. Today, as the world confronts the crisis of antibiotic resistance, the industry...
Tags: Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Research and Development, Companies and Corporations, Diseases and Illnesses, HIV
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CDC: Deadly, drug-defying CRE bacteria on rise in U.S. hospitals
A deadly bacteria that’s practically impervious to antibiotics is on the rise and has appeared in medical facilities in 42 U.S. states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. The rate of infection from carbapenem-resistant...
Tags: Disease Prevention, E. coli Infection, Diseases and Illnesses, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Provider
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Disinfecting robots help prevent superbug infections at Hopkins
Even as epidemiologists worry about a shrinking arsenal of antibiotics to fight potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital are betting on another weapon to prevent infections: robots.
It sounds more futuristic than...Tags: Disease Prevention, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Science and Technology, Anthony Harris, Diseases and Illnesses
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