Thursday, 16 May 2013

A.M. Vitals: Killer Hospital Germs and Autism


Here is what’s making health news this morning:
Researchers stalked a deadly strain of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia that killed six patients last year at the National Institutes of Health’s elite research hospital in Bethesda, Md., demonstrating that gene sequencing can help in the fight against hospital-acquired infections.
Older fathers pass on more new genetic mutations to their children than younger fathers, increasing their children’s risk of autism, schizophrenia and other diseases, says new research published in Nature.

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