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Scientists Gain Insight Into Antibiotic Resistance Of MRSA

Posted 05.22.2012

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Scientists have gained new clues into what makes certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus so resistant to antibiotics. Researchers from Massachuse...

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Superbugs Threatening More Children, 'Supermoms' Targeting Antibiotic Use On Farms

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Superbugs, X Factor, Fda, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News

Everly Macario recalls the "primal shriek" her son released one fateful April morning in 2004. By the end of the day, Simon Sparrow, who had not yet t...

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The Worst Environmental Pollutant: Antibiotics?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Factory Farms, Antibiotic Resistance, Factory Farming, Pollution, Livestock, Water Pollution, E. Coli, Mrsa, Green News

Waste from people, pets, pigs and even seagulls may be playing a significant role in the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, including methicilli...

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Superbug Suit: FDA To Address Antibiotic Overuse In Livestock, Protect Public Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Farming, Factory Farming, Nrdc, Mrsa, Antibiotics, Fda, Infections, Green News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must act on scientific knowledge that the overuse of antibiotics in food animals has contributed to the rise of ...

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Going Hog Wild: Weaning Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Out Of Pork

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Staph Infection, Organic Food, Livestock, Agriculture, Superbugs, Mrsa, Pigs, Cafo, Antibiotics, Pork, Green News

After nearly succumbing to an antibiotic-resistant infection contracted from one of his hogs, Russ Kremer went cold turkey. He exterminated his diseas...

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Antibiotic Use In Farm Animals Still Broadly Unaddressed Despite 'Fanfare' For FDA Move

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Infectious Diseases, Livestock, Superbugs, Mrsa, Antibiotics, Factory Farms, Fda, Cephalosporins, Green News

The Food and Drug Administration's latest move concerning the use of antibiotics in farm animals garnered a good deal of praise last week, but public ...

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FDA Takes A 'Step Backwards' On Antibiotic Resistance Issue, Raises More Public Health Concerns

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Animal Feed, Livestock, Nrdc, Agriculture, Mrsa, Antibiotics, Food Safety, Fda, Green News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday its withdrawal of a decades-old proposal to limit the use of antibiotics in animal feed, a mo...

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Do You Know Where Your Turkey's Been?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Holidays, Green Holiday, Turkey, Thanksgiving, Factory Farms, The Infection Loop, Fda, Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Food, Mrsa, Superbugs, Turkey Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Antibiotics, Usda, Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Agriculture, Green News

As families across America adorn their dinner tables with plump, juicy turkeys this Thursday, they've likely given little thought to what their future...

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Study Shows Hospital Curtains' Hidden Danger

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 11.26.2011

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Those hospital curtains that give privacy to patients could also be harboring drug-resistant bacteria, including the infamous methicillin-resistant st...

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Antibiotic Resistance: Consider the Source

Andrew Gunther | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, World Health Organization, E.Coli, National Pork Producers Council, MRSA Meat, Mrsa, Antibiotics, E. Coli, Food News

When it comes to matters of global human health, surely honesty and transparency must always prevail? Unfortunately, history tells us otherwise.

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Superbugs Are Still Winning: Second Cargill Recall Underscores Concern, GAO Report Suggests Feds Aren't Doing Enough

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Livestock, Mrsa, Superbugs, Factory Farms, Antibiotics, The Infection Loop, Salmonella, Gao, Gao Report Antibiotic Resistance, Green News

Just days after Cargill announced its second major recall in the last two months of ground turkey linked to antibiotic-resistant salmonella, a new re...

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Farm-acology 101: Doctors Take Aim At Antibiotic Resistance From Factory Farms

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Growth Promotion, Organic Food, Livestock, Meatless Monday, Mrsa, Cargill, Factory Farms, The Infection Loop, Salmonella, Fda, Green News

"Here's the big secret that no one wants to talk about: We're not very good at keeping what's inside a cow's intestines out of the meat." The roomf...

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Can Coffee, Tea Protect You From MRSA Superbug?

The Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 09.14.2011

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More good news for coffee drinkers? Possibly. A government study looked at 5,500 Americans and found those that drank tea or coffee had half the ch...

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E. Coli and the Misuse of Antibiotics

Andrew Gunther | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Pamta, Mrsa, E. Coli Outbreak, E. Coli, Food, Healthy Living News

E. coli is resistant to several classes of important antibiotics. And the consensus is that one of the most likely reasons for the development of this multiple-resistant strain is the misuse of antibiotics in intensive livestock farming systems.

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Bedbugs With 'Superbug' Germ Found

AP | By MIKE STOBBE | Posted 07.11.2011

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ATLANTA -- Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying a staph "superbug." Canadian scientists ...

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A Mother's Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

Everly Macario, ScD, MS, EdM | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Moms for Antibiotic Awareness, Mrsa Research Center, Mrsa Research, Mrsa Antibiotic Resistance, Personal Health, Mrsa, Healthy Living Body, Home News

My personal goal at the MRSA Research Center is to make the term MRSA as familiar as AIDS and, most importantly, to raise awareness about the cause of the current MRSA epidemic: antibiotic resistance.

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Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act

David Kirby | Posted 06.15.2011

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Maybe now the average American consumer will finally take note, and demand that Congress do something. Candidate Obama ran in support of an antibiotic ban in 2008, but has done little to advance the cause since then.

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Why Are Hospitals The Worst Place To Be When You Are Sick?

Judith Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Infectious Disease Control, Hospitalization, Healthcare in America, Hospital Hotbeds of Infection, America Hospital, American Health Care, American Hospital, Reform Health Care, Mrsa, C Diff, Infections, Infection Control, Thrush, Candida, Parotid Gland Infections, Home News

I can only hope that healthcare reform will eliminate the reasons why nurses and other healthcare workers repeatedly giggle dismissively as they say that hospitals are the worst place to be if you are sick, that they are hotbeds for infection.

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Your Holiday Ham -- Raised on Suffering, Salmonella and Drugs?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Usda, Factory Farming, Cafo, Antibiotics, Russia, Salmonella, Pork, Listeria, Antibiotics in Meat, Park Slope Food Coop, Smithfield Animal Cruelty, Smithfield Pork, Smithfield Pig Abuse, Food News

Pig producers who sell meat to Russia must wean their animals off antibiotics at least two weeks prior to slaughter. Japan requires a four-week flush-out period. This begs the question, what do the Russians and Japanese know about meat that we don't?

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Green News Report: November 2, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

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TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Steppin' ...

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Undefeated: The Gulf Coast 6 Months After the Blowout

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

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The crucible of the Gulf provides a harrowing example of the insanity we now consider normal.

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Federal Government Forms A Work Group On MRSA In Meat

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mrsa, MRSA Beef, MRSA Pork, Mrsa Superbug, Health, MRSA Meat, Healthy Living News

Last week, I wrote a column about the disturbingly high rate of MRSA (a drug-resistant staff bacteria) found in meat. Today, I am pleased to write that the USDA shares my concerns.

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Unkillable Bacteria: Where Eating Meat Meets Pound Of Flesh

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Veganism, Katz, Healthy, Antimicrobial Resistance, Ndm-1, Diet, Industrial Farming, Vegetarianism, Antibiotic Resistance, Fda, Health, Nutrition, Eating, Meat, Vre, Healthy Living News

For the sake of our health, the ethical treatment of fellow creatures and the hope that our antibiotics will work as intended when we need it -- we should eat less meat, more plants.

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MRSA In Meat: Why No Recall?

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Pork MRSA, Mrsa Superbug, MRSA Infection, Health, MRSA Meat, MRSA Pork, Meat MRSA, Healthy Living News

MRSA is showing up in random samples of raw pork sold in supermarkets, and to a lesser extent in beef and chicken. Yet these potentially deadly cuts have never been yanked off the shelves.

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Judy Consumer Is Fighting Mad About the 'CDC Truth Gaps'? And She's Not Going to Take It Anymore!

Judy Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Cdc, Infectious Diseases, Judy Consumer, Social Network Campaign, Technology News

Hospital infections -- a highly preventable hygiene issue -- has gone largely under the radar because the CDC understates the scope and deadliness of this health concern.

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