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Infection control saves more lives than personalized medicine ever will

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Jon Otter tweeted out this graph today, and it just blows me away: “Trust apportioned” is apparently the term in UK English for what we in the US call hospitals. So the dotted lines are hospitals and the solid lines include community cases. Huge drops in C diff diarrhea and MRSA BSIs. This is the English Read More …

Running aground on the iceberg – cancer mutations everywhere

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In science – especially biology – what you find is no more important than where you look. The oncogene paradigm of cancer genesis — that mutations to key genes cause cells to become cancerous – has reigned supreme for several decades now. It is a driving factor in the whole notion of personalized medicine,  which Read More …