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- December 15, 2010
As the concern for antibiotic-resistant infections grows, hospitals are encouraging patients to make sure doctors have washed their hands before examining them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that infections from hospitals and other medical care facilities impact more than 1 million people each year, taking the lives of nearly 100,000 patients.
READ MOREComedian Louis CK is gaining a lot of attention after a recent appearance on Conan, specifically around the problems that can result from giving kids smartphones. Writer Naomi Schaefer Riley reflects on how Louis CK shared his opinion that giving children smartphones may not be the best idea, since smartphones can keep kids from learning empathy and what it truly means to be kind to others.
READ MOREWhat would make a 6-year-old not only think that he could raise a lot of money to help a friend battling a life-threatening disease, but then actually go ahead and do what most adults could not? Well, you’d have to ask that 6-year-old, Dylan Siegel.
READ MOREWhat should a coach do when players are bullying others, ditching class and getting bad grades? Matt Labrum, a football coach at Union High School, decided to suspend almost the whole team for such behavior, with the support of the players’ parents and school administration.
READ MOREAbout 1,140 people have already been diagnosed with various forms of cancer as a result of exposure at Ground Zero. Treatment plans for those diagnosed will be covered by the World Trade Center Health Program. The number of eligible patients may continue to grow, since 58 other types of cancer have been added to the
READ MORERory Staunton was 12 years old when he died from an undiagnosed case of sepsis, after having scraped his elbow in gym class. Rory had gone to the hospital after waking up on the day after the gym class incident with a high fever, leg pain, high blood pressure, high heart rate, and vomiting, but doctors had assumed the boy just had a stomach flu.
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