Hi again, constant readers – yes, eye-deep again in a chapter, and sinking. About which: Is there anyone there who remembers staph 80/81 and would like to talk about it? Email me, address in the right-hand bar.
And now to the bad news. I am coming to this story late, but truthfully I am not even [...]
The nonprofit New America Foundation has a new blog, the New Health Dialogue, that is largely written by my friend and colleague Joanne Kenen. Joanne was for many years the health policy reporter for the wire service Reuters; she and I were Kaiser Family Foundation media fellows a year ago. If you’re at all interested [...]
Not MRSA but worth reading, I hope: My big project on post-Katrina New Orleans, a narrative profile of the leader of the city’s “mental health SWAT team,” has been published by MORE Magazine.
Read “After the Deluge” here, and then please take a moment to think what you might do to help the recovery of a [...]
More on the issue of doing more microbiology to track the epidemiology of CA-MRSA (raised in an exchange below between me and Medifix, to whom many thanks for being my first commenter!). In my slog through the endless and growing MRSA literature, I came across a paper that poses the problem much better than I [...]
Journalists aren’t really accustomed to people liking us, so I’m a little dizzy. But huge thanks also to Scott McPherson, who was sweet enough to mention my first book, on the CDC’s outbreak SWAT teams. Scott’s day job is in the thick of politics — he’s the chief information officer for the Florida House of [...]
Well, this is bad news.
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0 CommentsAnd to Scott McPherson for the bloglove hat-trick!
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