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Virulent Strain of Bovine S. Aureus Poses Potential Public Health Threat
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A new virulent subtype of the common clone of Staphylococcus aureus, ET3, has emerged, causing a large number of cases of bovine mastitis, occasionally causing zoonotic diseases in humans, and carrying the potential for serious antibiotic-resistant illness. Reuters Health Information
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What Your Patients are Reading: Calcium Supplements May Increase MI Risk in Older Women
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Recent news stories have examined links between calcium supplements and risk for MI, between the combination of ezetimibe and simvastatin and the statin alone, and between gay men and multidrug-resistant CA-MRSA, as well as studying the safety of meat from cloned meats animals, and the creation in a laboratory of a beating rat heart. Medscape Medical News
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Grapefruit May Curb Hepatitis C
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Naringenin, a compound found in grapefruit and other citrus fruits, curbs hepatitis C virus in lab tests. WebMD Health News
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