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Sepsis, an infection that kills millions worldwide each year and is the third leading cause of death in the United States, may have finally met its match. Paul Marik, the EVMS Foundation Distinguished Professor in Internal Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, believes he has developed a cure for the life-threatening infection. His treatment breakthrough promises to revolutionize sepsis care and produce results that are nothing short of astonishing. Vitamin C is often used intravenously as part of a treatment for cancer. Hydrocortisone is used to relieve inflammation and for a variety of...

WASHINGTON — Outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who fell ill in early December and hasn't been seen in public since, will be back at her desk on Monday, her closest aide said. "She's recuperating at home," and will take up her official duties again "next week" Philippe Reines wrote in brief email to AFP when asked about the health of Washington's most traveled top diplomat. **SNIP** Her lengthy absence from public life has sparked claims from some of her fiercer critics that she is trying to avoid testifying in a congressional investigation into a deadly attack on a...

NESS CITY, Kan. - Deputies say a woman in western Kansas became stuck on her boyfriend's toilet after sitting on it for two years. Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital. "We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

Cure for killer bug - but there's a catch KATE FOSTER IN THE annals of medical history, this could go down as one of the most effective but stomach-churning treatments ever devised. Scientists seeking a cure for a deadly superbug have successfully treated patients using human faeces. Trials in a Scottish hospital have shown patients suffering from the Clostridium difficile bug can be cured using 'donor stool' administered via a tube through the nose into their stomach. Clostridium difficile was last week at the heart of a damning report into cleaning failures at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust...

It's the last Sunday morning before the first day of school here. Summer is over and I knew the only way to get the boys out of bed is to bring out the big guns, the old reliable, the smell of fresh fried thick sliced bacon. Just before the big splattering started, as I was about to put the lid over the skillet, I was listening to how the sizzling static sound was mixing with the morning news on the TV. More bombs and rockets in Israel and Lebanon sizzle sizzle. Huge terror attack foiled in London sizzle sizzle. It...

Sen. Clinton Recovers After Collapsing 3 minutes ago Politics - U. S. Congress By CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) collapsed Monday during a speech on Social Security (news - web sites), moments after complaining about a stomach virus. AP Photo "She fainted after not feeling well, got medical attention and is proceeding with her planned schedule," according to a statement released by her office in Washington. Colleen DiPirro, president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce (news - web sites), told WBEN-AM radio that Clinton told the crowd she was...