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...they can. In the first study to connect antibiotic resistance in humans directly with the food we eat, a group of Minnesota public health specialists reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine that an eightfold increase in drug-resistant food poisoning among Minnesotans directly followed the approval and use of the same drug in chickens. While most of their patients got sick while traveling overseas--where overuse of antibiotics is even more widespread than in the U.S.--the scientists found evidence that the same thing is happening right here at home...
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Dr. Charles Lineweaver, an astrophysicist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, published an independent estimate of the universe's age in the journal Science. Lineweaver assessed the universe at 13.4 billion years old with a margin of error of 1.6 billion years...
College students living on campus are three times more likely to develop bacterial meningitis than people their age who do not attend college, according to a study in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Research published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature suggests that the cloned ewe named Dolly could be -- as an observer once joked -- a sheep in lamb's clothing. The three-year-old Finn Dorset ewe, it turns out, may be susceptible to premature aging. Researchers have determined that chromosome tips, known as telomeres, which regulate the lifespan of cells by preventing their genetic code from fraying, are shorter than expected in Dolly. Researchers are not sure whether the "older DNA" is the result of the age of the animal from which Dolly was cloned or the result...
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (5/13/99); Archives of General Psychiatry (5/99); Bad News: Wal-Mart, New England Journal of Medicine (5/13/99...