A dark, bitter kind of honey can cripple infection-causing bacteria, including the highly virulent strain known as MRSA, and now researchers think the...
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
We are losing the ability to treat human infections and diseases because we have misused one of the greatest scientific products ever created.
Matthew Stein | Posted 05.29.2009 | Living
Imagine a Hurricane Katrina-sized catastrophe occurring in 50 major U.S. cities at the same time, and you have some idea of the worst-case scenario for a crippling global pandemic.
New York Times | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green
Dr. Anderson at first couldn't figure out why he was seeing patient after patient with MRSA in a small Indiana town. And then he began to wonder about...
Betsy McCaughey | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living
A new policy announced in Washington D.C. on October 8 was billed as a huge step forward in patient safety. The truth is that it will do almost nothing to prevent infections that kill more than 100,000 patients a year.
Paul Armentano | Posted 09.27.2008 | Living
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, colloquially known as MRSA or 'the s...
Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living
Vance McGaugh was a normal healthy teenager. As his parents stood by his side at Cook Children's Medical Center, they kept expecting him to pull throu...
news.nationalgeographic.com | Ker Than | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living