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...buildings are crammed with state-of-the-art equipment imported from Europe, Brazil and Japan. Visitors pass through myriad barriers that spray visitors, dressed in special suits, with a disinfectant mist. The CIGB, which has its own Intranet, does handle a considerable amount of work with the kinds of bacteria and virus agents that can be used to develop bio-weapons - but then, so do almost all vaccine-producing labs around the world...
...salon, the last thing you expect is to end up looking and feeling worse. Yet last year more than 100 customers of a California salon wound up with large, painful scarring boils after soaking their legs in the salon's whirlpool bath. Now researchers have traced the outbreak to bacteria that grew behind a water vent and lodged in tiny cuts in the women's skin. Such problems are not common, but you can minimize your risk by not shaving your legs right before a pedicure...
...recent years, public health officials have stressed that bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, in part because of everyday exposure to low-level antibiotics in anti-bacterial soap...
...world of the stressed-out, sleep-deprived, terrifyingly fallible trainee surgeon, where life-or-death decisions are made on the basis of five cups of coffee and an educated guess. A surgical resident himself, Gawande turns every case--from gunshot wounds to morbid obesity to flesh-eating bacteria--into a thriller in miniature, with the author in the role of the oft-stymied but always sympathetic sleuth. Diagnosis: riveting...
...unexpected about the medications we take, and last week the surprise for me was about aspirin. A lot of people, it turns out, are born with--or are developing--a resistance to aspirin. This is not the kind of resistance that drug users build up over time or that bacteria develop against antibiotics, but it is nonetheless important. Aspirin is one of our most commonly used over-the-counter medications and is something of a miracle drug. It can do everything from dull the pain of a headache to reduce--as much as 25%--the risk of a stroke...