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October 2, 2009
SUPERBUG listed among "50 Excellent Public Health Blogs"
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Constant readers, I’m thrilled to let you know that SUPERBUG has been chosen one of “50 Excellent Public Health Blogs” by the nursing website RNCentral.com.
We are in extremely flattering company. Also among their choices are:
Effect Measure, the premier public-health blog, now the go-to place for analyses of public responses to pandemic flu
the Pump Handle, on [...]
April 14, 2009
Appearing today on The Ethicurean
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Constant readers, I want to let you know that the terrific food policy blog The Ethicurean (motto: “Chew the right thing“) very kindly had me over to do a Q&A on MRSA in meat. Please take a look and let them have some clicks: They are smart people thoughtfully elucidating a difficult subject, and worth [...]
January 12, 2009
GlobalPost launches and SUPERBUG is there
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Constant readers, I am thrilled to let you know that SUPERBUG is among a select list of blogs invited to be featured on GlobalPost, a gutsy and innovative new online news site that launches today.
GlobalPost is the creation of Charles M. Sennott, formerly an award-winning foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the Boston Globe, and [...]
December 9, 2008
In excellent company
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Constant readers, I’m pleased to report that SUPERBUG has been listed among 100 Global Health Blogs That Will Open Your Eyes by US PharmD+, an online info source for pharmacy education and the pharmacy profession.
We are in excellent company: Also listed are Effect Measure, Pump Handle, H5N1, Aetiology, Pharmalot and the indefatigable and indispensable crew [...]
September 8, 2008
New CDC educational campaign on CA-MRSA, aimed at parents
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This morning, the CDC is launching a “National MRSA Education Initiative” aimed at raising awareness among parents and average health-care professionals — not academic center researchers so much as front-line nurses, NPs, PAs and others who are likely to be the first set of eyes on a community MRSA infection.
The campaign’s front door is a [...]
March 31, 2008
Recommending a blog
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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 [...]
March 6, 2008
And to Scott McPherson for the bloglove hat-trick!
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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 [...]
March 6, 2008
And also to Crawford Kilian’s readers!
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Crof, dean of avian-flu bloggers and indefatigable proprietor of H5N1, very kindly called this “an excellent new site.” To have the support of such experienced bloggers is a wonderful thing.
March 6, 2008
Big welcome to FLA_MEDIC’s readers!
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The energetic and always-thoughtful proprietor of Avian Flu Diary very kindly called out this blog today. (In the intro box over on the right, I invited reading by MRSA researchers, MRSA victims and major disease geeks — he says he’s No. 3.) So welcome to anyone who found there way over here from there. And [...]
SUPERBUG named a Top 50 public health blog
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