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<item><title><![CDATA[ In Brief ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022701970.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022701970.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brief]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ After Death, Parents Want School Sanitized ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602959.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602959.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Some parents at Bunker Hill Elementary School in Northeast Washington are demanding that the D.C. Health Department sanitize the building for possible staph contamination after the death of a sixth-grade girl. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Dion Haynes]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Want]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanitized]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bunker Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helene Klusmann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mafara Hobson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bunker Hill Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Department of Health]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Resistant Staph Struck Rapidly ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121102250.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121102250.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The 30th of November unfolded as a typical Friday for Merry King. She spent the day teaching special-needs children at Herbert Hoover Middle School in affluent Potomac, then went home and planned for a weekend trip to New York to visit her daughter and see Manhattan decked out in holiday splendor. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel de Vise]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Resistant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Struck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rapidly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte Oliver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Herbert Hoover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Billie-Jean Bensen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Holy Cross Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appleton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Weast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Schleckser]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Hammond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim McIntyre]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merry King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Montgomery Teacher With Staph Infection Dies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001710.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001710.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Montgomery County teacher who contracted a virulent staph infection died Sunday night, worrying parents and raising new concerns about the bacteria.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114110885" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114110885" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Rucker and Ovetta Wiggins]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teacher]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte Oliver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Billie-Jean Bensen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diana Conway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Herbert Hoover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Weast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merry King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ulder Tillman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Are Antimicrobial Soaps Breeding Tougher Bugs? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110902114.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110902114.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If cleanliness is next to godliness, modern America is the land of the faithful -- fighting the good fight against today's so-called superbugs with sparkling countertops and well-washed hands. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ranit Mishori]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antimicrobial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soaps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Breeding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tougher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bugs?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuart Levy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Sansoni]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristopher McNeill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dial Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colgate-Palmolive Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allison Aiello]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elaine Larson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University/Providence Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tufts University School of Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Geological Survey]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Hospital Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Clean, by the Books ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110902161.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110902161.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The ancients had no idea that close to 200 species of bacteria -- both good and bad -- live on human skin. But they, too, were preoccupied with keeping themselves looking -- and smelling -- clean. Our concern with personal hygiene (the word is derived from Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health) predates the elaborate bathing rituals of the Greeks and Romans and goes back to Neolithic times, according to British historian Virginia Smith. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Clean,]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Books]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jessica Snyder Sachs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katherine Ashenburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frances Stead Sellers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oxford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ricky Lannetti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ NATION IN BRIEF ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101650.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101650.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[NATION]]></category><category><![CDATA[IN]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEF]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carmen Nieves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genarlow Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hershey Trust Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nature Publishing Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Carlyle Group LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte Amalie]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Station]]></category><category><![CDATA[David J. West]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth L. Wolfe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kimberly Alexander]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Lenny]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army Parachute Team]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hershey Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ NATION IN BRIEF ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/27/AR2007102701335.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/27/AR2007102701335.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114113675" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114113675" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[NATION]]></category><category><![CDATA[IN]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEF]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brent Wilkes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil Armstrong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Lantos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purdue University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Auschwitz-Birkenau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cape Canaveral]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Space Station]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel Combs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchell Wade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pikeville]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Lafayette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nazi Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pike County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Space Shuttle Discovery]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ WEEK IN REVIEW ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/27/AR2007102701201.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/27/AR2007102701201.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[WEEK]]></category><category><![CDATA[IN]]></category><category><![CDATA[REVIEW]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre Hornsby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cynthia Joffrion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Choice Hotels International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Knapp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ WEEK IN REVIEW ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/27/AR2007102701301.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/27/AR2007102701301.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[WEEK]]></category><category><![CDATA[IN]]></category><category><![CDATA[REVIEW]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. National Transportation Safety Board]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ MARYLAND BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102602215.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102602215.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[MARYLAND]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darenzo Nettles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aubrey J. Wilkerson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Crisp Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond McCaffrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Candace Rondeaux]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Richardson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forestville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn Ivey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Javaughn N. Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristin Riggin]]></category><category><![CDATA[La Plata]]></category><category><![CDATA[Megan Greenwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Buta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald D. Schiff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruben Castaneda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan DeFord]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tahzay L. Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles County]]></category><category><![CDATA[F.B. Gwynn Educational Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County Circuit Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kaine Requires Labs To Report Staph Cases ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102401838.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102401838.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) approved an emergency regulation yesterday requiring laboratories to report all cases of drug-resistant staph infections to the state Health Department.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114116426" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114116426" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Glod]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Requires]]></category><category><![CDATA[Labs]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Armstrong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel de Vise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kate Harrison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William of Wales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ House Votes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902384.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902384.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Votes]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Coaches, Trainers and Athletes Playing Cleanup ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102302827.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102302827.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With the recent outbreak of staph infections in the Prince William County school district, football coaches and athletic trainers are paying closer attention to the cleanliness of locker rooms and players. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen A. Norris]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Coaches,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trainers]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Athletes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Playing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleanup]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashley Harper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jenny Carver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forest Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Mangano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toby McCullough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Westridge Elementary School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Parents Are Asked To Take Kids Home After Staph Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102300066.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102300066.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The SEED public charter school asked parents late yesterday to take home students who live at the boarding school in Southeast Washington after a student there was treated for a staph infection, school officials said last night. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elissa Silverman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asked]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Take]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home]]></category><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rajiv Vinnakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Small Steps Can Reduce Risk of Staph Infections ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902558.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902558.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last week's report in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimating that invasive infections with antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus (staph, to you and me) are widespread, killing more people in the United States than AIDS, alarmed many readers, judging by calls to local schools and postings to online discussions at washingtonpost.com.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114121531" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114121531" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Small]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reduce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infections]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Merenstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Huget]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Jernigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nalini Singh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Children's National Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University Medical Center Department]]></category><category><![CDATA[Journal of the American Medical Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ WEEK IN REVIEW ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/20/AR2007102001104.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/20/AR2007102001104.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[WEEK]]></category><category><![CDATA[IN]]></category><category><![CDATA[REVIEW]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Naval Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William Board of County Supervisors]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Parents Unsure How to React to Staph Infections ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902841.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902841.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Michelle Grevert, a Prince William real estate agent with daughters at Gar-Field Senior High School, considers herself a rational parent. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Shapira]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unsure]]></category><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[React]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infections]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Grevert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benton Middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forest Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irene Cromer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven L. Walts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gar-Field Senior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Staph Anxiety Spreads Beyond Schools ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902519.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902519.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The antibiotic-resistant germ that has infected several area teachers and some students is not just a concern for schools. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Wan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spreads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beyond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheryl Pryor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drew Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Life Time Fitness Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Millree Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason Thunstrom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Barrett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Dorsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yolanda Woodlee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davis Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[H.D. Woodson Senior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest (Washington, DC)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ VIRGINIA BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902485.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101902485.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114124577" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114124577" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[VIRGINIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theresa Vargas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Jackman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Contour]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Sienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bertha L. Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dale City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fawn C. Scott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Belvoir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Nguyen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Meletis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Fairfax Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Health]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Schools Try to Allay Fears About Staph ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/AR2007101800411.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/AR2007101800411.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Parents, concerned about staph infections that have affected 31 students in the Washington region, inundated schools yesterday with calls and flooded Internet lists for information about the antibiotic-resistant strain. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel de Vise and Maria Glod]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Try]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fears]]></category><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Novak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mafara Hobson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stan Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashton Bonds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbi Wilgoren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ian Shapira]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Almquist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia O'Neill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Regnier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Mosier]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Wan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davis Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sherwood High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staunton River High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.C. Williams High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walt Whitman High School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ As Cases Arise, Schools Act to Ward Off Virulent Staph ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101701913.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101701913.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As national estimates focus on an increase in serious infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant germ, officials in the Washington region have identified more than a dozen cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Levine and William Wan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arise,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Act]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Off]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virulent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ulder Tillman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Chappell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ian Shapira]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Weast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nalini Singh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Department of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Journal of the American Medical Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rappahannock County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Severna Park High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sherwood High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilde Lake High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ How to Avoid, Identify And Treat Staph Germ ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702419.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702419.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has calculated that a drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA is responsible for more than 94,000 serious infections in the United States each year. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Avoid,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identify]]></category><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[Treat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germ]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Drug-Resistant Staph Germ's Toll Is Higher Than Thought ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101601392.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101601392.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114126016" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114126016" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Stein]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Drug-Resistant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germ's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Higher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thought]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth A. Bancroft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott K. Fridkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashton Bonds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael E. Pichichero]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet R. Casey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert S. Daum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rochester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bedford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Journal of the American Medical Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles County Department of Public Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Rochester]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ How to Help Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092101842.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092101842.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Any surgery poses a risk of infection, but patients can help reduce those risks. Here are some steps recommended by the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, a nonprofit devoted to safer hospital care. This advice comes from the group's Web site. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Help]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prevent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hospital-Acquired]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infections]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sweet Salve ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080301651.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080301651.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For biochemist Peter Molan, honey's ancient power to heal is not a matter of faith. So sure is he of the science behind it that he frequently applies the stuff of his research on himself -- and on his wife. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Frederick Trump]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sweet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Salve]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Synthetic Turf Gains Ground at Fairfax Parks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080100759.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080100759.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fairfax County's move from natural grass to artificial turf is accelerating with the opening of four synthetic fields in the past two weeks and four more in the works, park officials said. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fredrick Kunkle]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Synthetic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ground]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parks]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501660.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501660.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114129141" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114129141" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801455.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801455.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ WEEK IN REVIEW ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/19/AR2007051900942.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/19/AR2007051900942.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[WEEK]]></category><category><![CDATA[IN]]></category><category><![CDATA[REVIEW]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bug Puts Hospitals On Edge, On Guard ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301193.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301193.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Levine]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bug]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edge,]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Care for Injured British Troops Is Faulted ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031100610.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031100610.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LONDON, March 11 -- British troops  wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving appalling  care in British hospitals, according to families who have made complaints similar to those leveled against Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114131488" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114131488" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Sullivan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Care]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Injured]]></category><category><![CDATA[British]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troops]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faulted]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Science and Medicine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/09/DI2007020900791.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/09/DI2007020900791.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington Post staff writer Rob Stein was online to discuss Monday's Science Page article about skin bacteria at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, Feb. 12. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Science]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gorilla Staple Adds Spice to New Drugs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112600730.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112600730.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A clear vial filled with amber fluid rests on scientist Ilya Raskin's desk, glinting in the autumn sunlight streaming through his office window. The container, a small glass bottle with a plain white screw-top, contains a substance Raskin calls 006. "Double-zero-six" is potentially more precious than the rarest topaz. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheryl Lyn Dybas]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gorilla]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staple]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spice]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ TELECOM ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001196.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001196.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[TELECOM]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901290.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901290.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114136809" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114136809" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Team Takes Precautions With Brunell's Cut ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501255.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501255.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Washington Redskins' athletic trainers tended to the cut on quarterback Mark Brunell's left elbow yesterday, giving him pills to take, cleaning the wound and trying to prevent infection. Coach Joe Gibbs said the cut was "not a big deal," but the team is taking precautions to keep fluid from accumulating in the elbow joint. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason La Canfora]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Team]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Precautions]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brunell's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cut]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801201.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801201.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Threat of Microscopic Proportions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400874.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400874.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Professional sports teams including the Washington Redskins have pursued pricey, high-tech measures to squash locker-room uprisings of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). But you don't have to be a jock to have concern about the bug: Experts emphasize that the public at large could be vulnerable to infection. The good news is that for most people, prevention requires little more than being aware of higher-risk zones and knowing how to behave in them. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeffrey G. Ghassemi]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Threat]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microscopic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Proportions]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Blitzing Microbial Infections ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/02/AR2006080201938.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/02/AR2006080201938.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Washington Redskins took quiet steps during the offseason to combat one of their tiniest and toughest foes -- a microscopic organism that is becoming increasingly dangerous and potentially lethal.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114139283" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114139283" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Howard Bryant]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Blitzing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microbial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infections]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001365.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001365.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The care provided at for-profit nursing homes and hospitals, on average, is inferior to that at nonprofits, an extensive review of previous studies found. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rabach Injures Leg in an ATV Accident ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040601974.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040601974.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington Redskins starting center Casey Rabach will spend three weeks in a cast and on crutches after injuring his lower left leg in an all-terrain vehicle accident last Friday, Director of Sports Medicine Bubba Tyer said. Rabach's ATV turned on him while he was riding near his Virginia home, and he required surgery to repair a significant wound on his leg, ankle and calf muscle, Tyer said. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason La Canfora]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rabach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Injures]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leg]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[ATV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accident]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001862.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001862.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/20/AR2006022001317.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/20/AR2006022001317.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114142541" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114142541" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Frightening Off-Field Foe ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602171.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602171.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Brandon Noble needs crutches to walk, and he has been relegated to spending much of his time at home on his sofa. When he's lying in bed at night and needs to move his left leg to get comfortable, he must lift it with his arms or nudge it with his right leg. He struggles to play with his children. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Maske and Jason La Canfora]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frightening]]></category><category><![CDATA[Off-Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foe]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Noble Trying To Recover From Newest Infection ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011601297.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011601297.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington Redskins defensive lineman Brandon Noble, who did not play this season and was placed on injured reserve in September, is trying to recover from an infection that has recurred in his surgically repaired knee. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Noble]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trying]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recover]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infection]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122101992.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122101992.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FDA Approves New Antibiotic for Resistant Bacteria ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601434.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601434.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Food and Drug Administration approved a new treatment yesterday for hospital patients with serious bacterial infections, including those resistant to most other antibiotics.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114145182" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=105114145182" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marc Kaufman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Approves]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antibiotic]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resistant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bacteria]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FINDINGS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/12/AR2005041200556.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/12/AR2005041200556.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dangerous Germ Becoming More Common ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/06/AR2005040601707.html?nav=rss_health/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/06/AR2005040601707.html?nav=rss_health/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A dangerous germ easily mistaken for an innocuous one has become alarmingly common around the United States, raising concern that seemingly minor boils, pimples and abscesses could increasingly become disfiguring or even life-threatening, researchers reported yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Stein]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dangerous]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germ]]></category><category><![CDATA[Becoming]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Common]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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