Former President Bill Clinton sat down with Charlie Rose to discuss Hillary's health. CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes takes a look at the interview.
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Monday, September 12, 2016
Youth soccer injuries on the rise
Three million American children under 19 play soccer, and with the sport taking off, so are trips to the emergency room. A study published Monday found injuries more than doubled between 1990 and 2013. Ben Tracy found out why.
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Man's pet birds gave him rare case of "parrot fever"
At first, doctors thought it was the flu, but as odd symptoms mounted, they discovered something else
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Soledad O'Brien Talks Kids' Health and Self-Help
The award-winning journalist and busy mom takes a special interest in being well.
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Many With Diabetes Missing Out on Statins
2 in 5 middle-aged patients don't get the cholesterol-cutting drugs, despite recommendations to do so, study finds
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Sugar industry's role in diet, health studies questioned
As early as the 1960s, documents show sugar executives funded heart studies that would shift spotlight to the dangers of fat
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10 Questions With Actor and Musician Charles Esten
The Nashville star shares his passion for advances in leukemia and lymphoma research
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How serious is pneumonia? Clinton's health raises questions
With antibiotics, sleep and plenty of liquids, most patients recover quickly, experts say
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Teva's pricey Parkinson's drug unnerves some patients
Since getting FDA approval, Azilect has seen its cost jump more than 200 percent over the past decade
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U.S. soccer star admits to years of alcohol, pill abuse
Abby Wambach, soccer's most prolific international goal scorer, was arrested in April for DUI; new memoir details all
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Applications for four ADA Foundation grant programs due in November, December
The ADA Foundation is accepting applications for programs that provide funding to improve the oral health of the public.
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ADA Credentialing Service launches nationally
The ADA announced Sept. 8 the national launch of the ADA Credentialing Service, which was developed in an effort to help simplify the credentialing process and reduce administrative burdens for dentists.
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USDA Investments to Improve Drinking Water and Waste Infrastructure for 168 Small Towns
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 12, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making investments to improve water and waste infrastructure for 168 small towns across the country, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Many parents make dosing errors with kids' liquid meds
One method of dispensing liquid medication is far more accurate, a new study reports
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Rate of Youth Soccer Injuries More Than Doubles
Concussion rate jumped almost 1,600 percent in same time period, study found
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Dosing Errors Common With Kids' Liquid Meds
Parents make fewer mistakes using oral syringes compared to cups, study finds
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Connecticut Toddler Latest U.S. Case of 'Superbug'
But like 3 other infections reported earlier, it did not spread beyond the original patient
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MRSA: The not-so-famous superbug
Last year Daniel Fells, a tight end for the New York Giants, was hospitalized with a bad infection in his foot known as MRSA, which stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It is a drug-resistant form of staph. The infection didn’t respond to antibiotics, and at one point there was talk of needing to amputate the affected foot. After multiple surgeries, doctors were finally able to clear out the infection, but it is unlikely Fells will ever play football again.
Although it rarely gets headlines, MRSA is perhaps the most well-known superbug –– a type of bacteria that is resistant to most, if not all, antibiotics. These infections may have once seemed like an exotic problem, but with each football season they are becoming more common, affecting high school, college, and professional athletes indiscriminately. But the problem isn’t limited to athletes, as these bacteria also infect healthy people in the general community.
MRSA proves to be especially adept at evading the grasp of antibiotics, becoming a truly dangerous superbug. But this shouldn’t be a huge surprise, because as long as we’ve had antibiotics, staph bacteria have been figuring out ways to become resistant to them.
What exactly is MRSA… and why is it so dangerous?
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Staphylococcus aureus, or staph, causes skin infections. These can include boils, impetigo, skin abscesses, and other painful conditions. If the infection goes unchecked, staph bacteria can cause pneumonia, blood poisoning, toxic shock syndrome, and sepsis (a life threatening immune response to an infection).
Penicillin was successfully used to treat these staph infections after the antibiotic’s discovery in 1940, but its effectiveness began to wane as the S. aureus bacteria began to develop a resistance to the drug. So, scientists turned to the drug methicillin, but by 1961 they discovered that the first strains of S. aureus were beginning to show resistance to this antibiotic as well. Over time, MRSA has become resistant to numerous antibiotics, making it increasingly dangerous and difficult to treat.
Who can get MRSA?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in three people carry the staph bacteria in their nose, and two out of 100 people carry MRSA. There are more than 80,000 cases of MRSA each year, and more than 11,000 people die from these infections. Although most of these cases occur in the hospital setting, MRSA infection is becoming a more widespread problem in the general community.
“I actually think of [MRSA] as a pathogen that I have a tremendous amount of respect for, in the sense that it’s one of the very few bacteria that is very good at causing infections in healthy people and also very good at causing infections in sick people in the hospital,” says Dr. John Ross, an infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. “There aren’t a lot of bacteria that do that.”
Although MRSA infection used to be primarily a “hospital problem,” it’s clear that MRSA is becoming a problem in the general population, usually in the form of skin infections. People can become infected with MRSA after being in contact with an infected wound, or by sharing personal items like razors, toothbrushes, or towels that have touched infected skin. The chances of getting MRSA increase in situations that have what doctors call the five Cs: crowding, skin to skin contact, compromised skin from cuts or abrasions, lack of cleanliness, and contaminated items and surfaces. Examples of people commonly in these situations include athletes, military personnel who live in close quarters, and daycare and school children, as they all involve crowding, skin-to-skin contact, and the sharing of equipment, supplies, and toys.
How you can lower your chances of getting MRSA
It’s important to recognize the signs of an infection early on. According to the CDC, MRSA skin infections can occur anywhere on the body, and they usually appear as a red bump or an area that is red, swollen, painful to the touch, abnormally warm, or full of pus. If you develop any of these symptoms, it’s important to call your doctor right away.
According to the CDC, maintaining good health and basic hygiene can help decrease the risk of bacterial infection. Promptly cleaning and bandaging any cuts or wounds until they are healed also helps keep cuts from becoming infected. Since MRSA can spread through personal items, it’s important not to share things like razors or towels, especially if people have cuts or scrapes.
“Basic general hygiene and hand washing are important,” says Ross. “If there is someone in your house with a staph or MRSA infection that can be spread to other people in the household it’s important that they be treated.”
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Youth soccer injuries soaring -- including concussions -- here's why
New study highlights the numbers; experts say sport's growing popularity is just one part of the picture
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