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Which foods make Americans ill? Whether chicken or salad, food safety at home is key to avoiding illness
Jan. 31, 2013 A new study analyzing outbreaks of foodborne illness has found contaminated salad greens make the most people sick, but contaminated poultry have resulted in the most deaths
Patients can emit small, influenza-containing particles into the air during routine care
Jan. 31, 2013 A new study suggests that patients with influenza can emit small virus-containing particles into the surrounding air during routine patient care, potentially exposing health care providers to influenza.
Tomorrow’s life-saving medications may currently be living at the bottom of the sea
Jan. 29, 2013 OHSU researchers, in partnership with scientists from several other institutions, have published two new research papers that signal how the next class of powerful medications may currently reside at the bottom of the ocean. In both cases, the researchers were focused on ocean-based mollusks — a category of animal that includes snails, clams and squid and their bacterial companions.
Using Twitter to track the flu: Researchers find a better way to screen the tweets
Jan. 24, 2013 Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have been sick with the virus, while others come from folks who are merely talking about the illness.
Synthetic corkscrew peptide kills antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria
Jan. 24, 2013 An engineered peptide provides a new prototype for killing an entire category of resistant bacteria by shredding and dissolving their double-layered membranes, which are thought to protect those microbes from antibiotics
Novel approaches needed to end growing scourge of ‘superbugs’
Jan. 23, 2013 With the rising awareness of the so-called “superbugs,” bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts writing in the Jan
Novel approaches needed to end growing scourge of ‘superbugs’
Jan. 23, 2013 With the rising awareness of the so-called “superbugs,” bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts writing in the Jan
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