Infections

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Is Silver the Solution?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted April 29, 2008 | Living


Alison Rose Levy

This week Detroit doctors reported an outbreak of seven cases of VRSA (Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), a close cousin of MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an antibiotic-resistant infection that has proven deadly. The cases were discovered in nursing homes, wound clinics, outpatient kidney dialysis centers and hospitals, yet another reminder of...

Dennis Quaid's Misdiagnosis

Alison Rose Levy | Posted March 23, 2008 | Living


Alison Rose Levy

Dennis Quaid's movie star status affords his family the best medical care available. But it couldn't shield his children from the dangers encountered by rich and by poor upon entering a hospital.

As everyone knows, the Quaid twins were mistakenly given intravenous doses of the blood thinner, Heparin, 2000 times...


 

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