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Sweeping up the superbugs
Healthcare professionals have long known that the launch of a new antibiotic drug is inevitably followed by the emergence of resistant bacterial strains due to the trading of genes between the microbes. The process is relatively straightforward: bacteria exchange clusters of drug-resistance genes which are carried on plasmids (small circles of DNA); these then replicate themselves independently of the bacterial chromosome.
Such awareness has been accompanied by routine bouts of alarm in the mass media
Book review: Medical Imaging: Techniques, Reflection & Evaluation, 2nd Edition
Edited by Elizabeth Carver & Barry Carver Churchill Livingstone, June 2012, 560 pp,
Matters of the heart: when to transplant or not
In 1967, Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first transplantation of a human heart into a patient, having already performed about 50 animal heart transplants to ensure success with human patients. Since then medical science has advanced on many levels most notably the evolution of medical devices such as artificial hearts and xenotransplantation. Yet, this is not enough to meet the challenges of dealing with increasing cardiovascular disease in Europe and elsewhere.
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Radiologists retain a key role, not least in cancer screening and prevention
The first International Day of Radiology (IDoR) on November 8, a joint initiative of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) aims at highlighting the role played by radiology and medical imaging in modern medicine while helping raise the public profile of the radiologist. The date commemorates the day Wilhelm Conrad R
The 10 most important technologies for hospitals ? Part 3
In this third and last article featuring ECRI