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Warning over hospital bug

A leading Perth microbiologist is warning that a doubling in cases of a bacterial gut infection could be opening the way for more deadly and virulent strains to get into Australian hospitals Professor Thomas Riley from the University of WA said the rates of Clostridium difficile infection in WA had increased significantly in the past nine months... Read More

Write all prescriptions in capital letters Mumbai citizens tell doctors

MUMBAI It turns out that all those jokes about doctors scrawl are not funny at all Doctors illegible handwriting causes 7000 deaths in the US every year and another 15 million Americans report minor adverse reactionsbe it diarrhoea or rashesor even death Now a movement has begun in Mumbai asking the medical fraternity to write prescriptions i... Read More