Fear the Bacterial Tide: Forget MRSA, Fear CRE!

Efforts should be made to promote staff ownership of hand hygiene using techniques like developing local (e.g., unit) hand hygiene champions

Mayo Clinic Still Isn’t Treating Weight Loss Correctly.

I like the Mayo Clinic. They do good complicated lab work, and they do it from a "satellite" Mayo clinic down in Massachusetts. Generally medically they are considered some of the best and the brightest. So when they address weight loss with the following, I get a little depressed.

Death By Spinach? Listeria Shouldn’t Be Dropping Us Like Flies.

I'll be eating my cantaloupe and thanking all my fellow Mainers for making it really cheap by avoiding it. I don't know about the spinach dip, but mostly because I'm not sure what spinach dip is.

How Did Pat Summitt Get Alzheimers Disease?

includes that scary little thing called a prion

Hair Dye and Cancer: News From New England?

I'm not sure what to make of the study on hair dye

Achalasia: When You Just Can’t Swallow.

For those of you who have no problem swallowing, this post is unnecessary and very detailed. But those of you who have some difficulty should probably read on.