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The Superbug Epidemic Just Got Scarier

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It’s like something out of a Hollywood sci-fi movie… A deadly blob incubates in a secluded hospital location. Then it slowly creeps up through the plumbing, until it finds humans….and kills them.

But this isn’t fiction.

It is happening in hospitals all across America.

Researchers from the University of Virginia Health System recently set out to determine how deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs were spreading.… Read More

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Americans Waste Millions on This Worthless Remedy

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We spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on the stuff. It’s in almost everybody’s medicine cabinet. But it’s a total waste of our hard-earned money. It doesn’t work.

At least 15 clinical trials have proved using cough syrup is no better than taking a placebo.1

Its sales spike during cold and flu season. We spend almost $600 million a year on over-the-counter cough syrup, according to Drug Store News magazine.… Read More

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Hospitals Keep Lethal Superbug Outbreaks Secret

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An epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections in health care facilities has killed thousands of Americans. But good luck trying to find out if your local hospital is hosting the deadly germs…

Greedy health care facilities rarely report the outbreaks because it is bad for business.

A recent outbreak of the superbug Clostridium difficile (c. diff) in a New Mexico assisted living facility left eight of the 86 residents dead and seven more battling for their lives.… Read More