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Alcohol hand rubs not enough to curb hospital infections

February 17th, 2008    Posted by: Dr. Dobson

Making alcohol-based hand gels common and accessible in hospitals increases their use and cuts the amount of microbes on the hands of nursing staff. But it does not cut the rates of device-associated infections, illness caused by drug-resistant bacteria or cases of Clostridium difficile, says a study published in the January Read the rest of this entry »

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Here are other natural remedies for seasonal allergies: (Allergies And Bladder Infections)

October 14th, 2007    Posted by: Dr. Dobson

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Here are other natural remedies for seasonal allergies: … back quercetin up as one of the most important supplements for allergy season. …

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Tournistrip: Simple and cheap tech for reducing hospital infections

June 28th, 2007    Posted by: Dr. Dobson

There will surely be challenges to adapting the “Tournistrip” to low resource settings, however, it is a cheap and simple way to cut hospital infections due to the high volume reuse of traditional tourniquets. I am just shocked that they don’t already do this in hospitals found in the West:

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