In May of this year the CDC announced the first US isolation of a so-called “super bug,” meaning a bacteria resistant to all available antibiotics. The E. coli bacterium was cultured from the urinary tract of a Pennsylvania woman with no history of foreign travel. Continue reading
Month: June 2016
Update on cancer screening
I read an interesting update on cancer screening today published in the January 2016 issue of the BMJ noting that: “A systematic review of cancer screening trials found that three (33%) showed reductions in disease specific mortality and that none showed reductions in overall mortality.” Continue reading