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MRSA Flourishes in Overcrowded, Understaffed Hospitals
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Emphasis on increased efficiency and cost-cutting has led to widespread hospital overcrowding and understaffing, an environment rife for the spread of nosocomial infections, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to authors of a literature review in the July edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Reuters Health Information
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Controversial End-of-Life Care Bill Amended in California
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The bill is designed to improve information and counseling for patients, but it also encourages the use of palliative sedation and voluntary starvation and dehydration, and has been met with strong opposition. Medscape Medical News
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