250,000
Yearly number of bloodstream infections contracted due to catheter use in U.S. hospitals; a new federal measure to improve hospital hygiene requires hospitals to report all such infections [via The Miami Herald]
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Special Reports
The Disease that Won’t Die: Tuberculosis in Peru
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
