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November 18, 2007
Sloppiness can increase risk during procedures
If a medical clinician's techniques are sloppy, almost any procedure - from a dental filling to a yearly colonoscopy to minor surgery by a podiatrist - can go from routine to risky, experts say.
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How to avoid, identify and treat staph germ
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has calculated that a drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA is responsible for more than 94,000 serious infections in the United States each year. Q. What is MRSA?
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