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Antibiotics Defined

Antibiotics are used in animal agriculture for two reasons. First, to improve the rate of growth and the feed efficiency of animals so they produce more meat or milk on less feed. The second reason is to prevent and treat diseases, just as in humans.

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Overcrowding killing patients

Published September 7, 2008, 10:26 am, Otago Daily Times

A shortage of hospital beds is killing as many people every year as road accidents, emergency doctors say. They are calling for a 15% increase in the number of beds to help solve the problem, following research that indicates hundreds die every year.

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'Hundreds' die because of hospital crowding

Published September 7, 2008, 9:16 am, The New Zealand Herald

A shortage of hospital beds is killing as many as the national road toll - about 400 a year - say emergency doctors. They are calling for a 15 per cent increase in the number of beds after research that indicates hundreds die every year.

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I drank two bottles of wine a day. Then naturopathy (and a cheque from Gazza) saved my life, says Margi Clarke

Published September 7, 2008, 7:50 am, Daily Mail

Actress Margi Clarke reveals her amazing decade-long journey back to well-being.

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Good advice... not such a hard pill to swallow

Published September 7, 2008, 7:09 am, C-Health

A visit to your pharmacist, more good news about fruits and vegetables and vitamin D are all hot topics in the nutrition world these days. Here are some highlights:

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Scientists warn of fatal superbug 'epidemic'

Published September 7, 2008, 6:55 am, The Age

Australia is facing an epidemic of a drug-resistant superbug that attacks healthy teenagers and can be fatal, leading scientists have warned.

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Center Area scrubs up MRSA outbreak

Published September 7, 2008, 5:50 am, The Beaver County Times

CENTER TWP. — Officials at Center Area School District are already dealing with its first cases of MRSA, just one week into the 2008-09 school year.

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Toward Improved Antibiotics Using Proteins From Marine Diatoms - Biomacromolecules Journal

Published September 7, 2008, 3:17 am, Medical News Today

Researchers in Florida are reporting an advance toward tapping the enormous potential of an emerging new group of antibiotics identical to certain germ-fighting proteins found in the human immune system. Their study, which may help fight the growing epidemic of drug-resistant infections, is in the current (August) issue of ACS' Biomacromolecules, a monthly journal. In the new study, D.

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Promising Method For Reducing MRSA Infections In Hospital Intensive Care Units Revealed By University Of Virginia Study

Published September 7, 2008, 3:16 am, Medical News Today

Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have significantly reduced MRSA infections among surgical intensive care patients by using antibiotic cycling, a method of rotating drugs at regular intervals.

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Marijuana Ingredients Show Promise In Battling Superbugs - Journal Of Natural Products

Published September 7, 2008, 3:16 am, Medical News Today

Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are reporting.

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District, state remind parents of the importance of vaccinations

Published September 7, 2008, 2:17 am, Casper Star-Tribune

Vaccination rates for children in Wyoming have increased, but students in Natrona County School District still return to school with incomplete immunization records.

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