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  • 7000 Die in Italian Hospitals Annually Due to Unhygenic Conditions

    01/09/2007 7:46:51 AM PST · by Ombudsman · 9 replies · 425+ views
    L'Espresso Magazine Italia ^ | January 9, 2007 | Ombudsman
    http://espresso.repubblica.it/ Title to the article: "Hospital Inferno." SocioMed at its finest. 7,000 people die per year in Italian hospitals due to unhygenic conditions. That is two Medical 911's per year. Twice as many people die in Hospitals due to negligence in one year, than we have troops killed fighting terrorists in three years. Watched film of this. The hospital they filmed, Umberto I in Rome, the city's largest public hospital didn't quite look like a Soviet era hospital, but I sure wouldn't want to go there. Forza SociMed!
  • Superbug Emerging Across Canada (MRSA)

    01/02/2007 10:38:12 AM PST · by blam · 76 replies · 7,072+ views
    CanWest ^ | 1-2-2007 | Sharon Kirkey
    Superbug emerging across Canada Sharon Kirkey, CanWest News Service Published: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 A superbug that causes infections from large, boil-like lesions to hemorrhagic pneumonia and, in rare cases, ''flesh-eating'' disease is poised to ''emerge in force'' across Canada, a new report warns. While the prospect of a flu pandemic has governments scrambling to develop emergency plans, an epidemic of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or CA-MRSA, is already raging in the U.S. and beginning to entrench itself here, infectious disease experts report today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. In the U.S., clusters have been reported in groups from...