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This May's Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE) contained a randomized trial of copper-coated surfaces in ICU settings which reported a 50-70% reduction in several aggregate outcomes that included hospital-acquired infections and colonization with MRSA and VRE. In this guest blog post, physician-scientists Dr. Matthias Maiwald from the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Singapore and Dr. Stephan Harbarth from University of Geneva Hospitals in Geneva,
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Harvard has decided not to seek to renew NIH support for their New England National Primate Research Center, established by Congress in 1962. The Center has operated with a so-called "base grant" from the National Institutes of Health underpinning the not-inconsiderable costs of housing thousands of nonhuman primates and the usual grab bag of investigators' [...]
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The USDA Secretary tells Congress that his agency still plans to implement a new poultry slaughter inspection system that will allow producers to drastically increase line speeds, while a disturbing new report on poultry workers in Alabama explain the harmful effects of the current working conditions.
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Minutes after I posted yesterday's blog, I went outside with Samantha on her leash. It had been a good morning. I was home alone except for all the critters, I had graded papers, paid some bills, written a perfectly nice post, and was going to work after I had walked the puppy.And then the day's plans changed. I was standing in the driveway, the puppy happily trying to crunch gravel (no I didn't let her), and my left ankle buckled. I wasn't moving (although Kathleen theorizes that I moved […]
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The hardest part about the transition from the preclinical years to a third-year clerkship is the change from being a full-time student to a student-worker. During the first two years, technologies such as panopto and Emed allow students to dictate their own schedules and their own timelines. Other than doing required lab work and attending [...]Related Posts:How to Succeed in Med School by Really TryingYear Three: Selecting and Excelling in ClerkshipsSecond-Year Medical School: Assembling a
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A few recent pieces worth a look
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In the spirit of passing on wisdom to the next generation, I have compiled a list of what you need to do in order to succeed in graduate school. Only go to graduate school if its the only thing in the whole entire world you could ever be happy doing. You should want it so much you would do i [...]
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A study recently published in Psychology of Violence examines an increase in youth online harassment over the last decade in order to better explore the implications of the trend for prevention initiatives. Method: The Youth Internet Safety Surveys (YISSs) involved...
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EB2013 has come and gone. It was an exciting time in nutrition. DSM Nutritional Products was proud to continue its support of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Minority Affairs Committee. This year, 18 young scholars were selected for ASN Minority Access to Research Careers Travel Awards. For the first time, ASN selected a winner for the 2013 Grand Prize for Young Minority Researchers. It was Christine Hutchison from Iowa State University. For more information on Christine and the […]
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Mick Bosilevac, Ph.D., a research microbiologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Meat Safety and Quality Research Unit, has a good piece about testing for STECs, or shiga-toxin producing E. coli in the current Food … Continue reading →
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Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) investigators have linked three cases of salmonellosis (illness due to infection with Salmonella bacteria) to ducklings purchased from the Tractor Supply Company store in Inver Grove Heights. The cases are associated with a multi-state outbreak … Continue reading →
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Who needs testosterone to keep that male libido up after 50? Canada comes to the rescue again with sex-cereal. Once confined to raw oysters, the world of aphrodisiacs has now expanded to sex cereal, billed by the Canadian manufacturer as … Continue reading →
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The 1979 movie, Breaking Away, is the softer, more empathetic version of Animal House, chronicling the conflict between locals or townies or cutters, and the university students who invade these towns for four years at a time. Set in Bloomington, … Continue reading →
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William Herkewitz of Science Liner writes that in the United States some raw-milk cheeses are as illegal to buy and sell as Cuban cigars or imported ivory. Their crime? They haven’t been shelved for long enough. By federal law, all … Continue reading →
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Thirteen people have become ill with salmonellosis linked to eating a raw Mexican-style cheese, queso fresco, and state health officials are warning consumers about the risks of consuming unpasteurized dairy products. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), the Minnesota Department of … Continue reading →
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If Colbert doesn’t see color, I don’t see gender (and Colbert said much the same thing when interviewing NASCAR driver and Go-Daddy spokesthingy Danica Patrick last night. According to Huffington Post, people never seem to tire of discussing the role … Continue reading →
