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In the early 2000s, hospitals across Australia began installing more hand-sanitizer dispensers in their rooms and hallways for staff, visitors and patients to use. Research showed these alcohol-based disinfectants helped battle staph infections in patients and certain kinds of drug-resistant bacteria. And rates of these infections went down. But other infections didn't drop when people started using the sanitizer stations. In fact, certain infections went up. In particular, enterococcal infections — caused by bacteria that affect the digestive tract, bladder, heart and other parts of the body — started increasing. This wasn't only happening in Australia. Countries around the world...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers expected to find. "One thing that really is astonishing is the variability between individuals, and also between hands on the same individual," said University of Colorado biochemistry assistant professor Rob Knight, a co-author of the paper. "The sheer number of bacteria species detected on the hands of the study participants was a big surprise, and so was the greater diversity of bacteria...

Once again a Male Gyn in trouble. It seems to be alot of this happening lately. There is a cure no more male Gyn's. And the AMA needs to crack down on these pigs. Lady's please do a ama search before going to a doc also look at the alternatives available. Home testing is out there and a new CSA blood test which is almost 100% accurate verse the YUK Pap test which at best is 70% accurate and you keep your clothes on for the CSA test. Cost is about 50 dollars. her eis alink to there web site...