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- Hospitals to test copper for germ-fighting
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-31-2007 01:24 PM -0800
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- Hospitals take a shine to silver, copper
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-31-2007 12:40 PM -0800
Some intensive-care units in the U.S. are about to get copper fittings as part of a project to test if drug-resistant bacteria survive better on hospitals' ubiquitous stainless steel than on copper.[more]
- Battling germs by busting up their gangs
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-31-2007 12:12 PM -0800
Bacteria make their own gangs, clustering quietly in the body until there's a large enough group to begin an attack. This is the next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs.[more]
- 2008: A year already worth forgetting
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-31-2007 11:13 AM -0800
Bioethicist Art Caplan stands ready to foretell what big stories await in '08. Be warned: He's bearing bad news about stem cell research, HIV vaccines and the possibility of a bird flu pandemic.[more]
- Readers hit the reset button for ’08
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-31-2007 11:11 AM -0800
Want to take up tap dancing? Watch less TV? Train for a marathon? Now's your chance. If you still haven't made a New Year's resolution, steal an idea from our readers.[more]
- Pulling my hair out
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-31-2007 06:02 AM -0800
Years of compulsive behavior threatened to leave me bald, but finally, I got help. And found hope.[more]
- Organize your way out of stress
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-31-2007 05:37 AM -0800
Professional household organizer Ruth Phillips has a mantra: Are you keeping it or tossing it? She describes most of her clients as being overwhelmed by clutter. Nearly all of them experience...[more]
- Brush on Paint, Swirl in Some Glitter, And Suddenly Everything Looks Better
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-30-2007 09:00 PM -0800
"Pink glitter, please!" said Michele Pinczuk, eyeing all the artistic possibilities arrayed in containers spread across her hospital bed.[more]
- Vote Your Conscience. If You Can.
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-30-2007 09:00 PM -0800
Two sociologists and a mathematician recently conducted an experiment that provides an intriguing window into the presidential candidate selection that begins this week. Matthew Salganik, Duncan...[more]
- Giving birth outsourced to India
Category: Health
Publish Date: 12-30-2007 11:26 AM -0800
Experts say commercial surrogacy — or what has been called "wombs for rent" — is growing in India.[more]
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