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A short description of this blog.
Maryn McKenna is an award-winning journalist and author and a recovering newspaper reporter. She writes about public health, medicine and food policy, and finds emerging diseases strangely exciting.
You can find her new book SUPERBUG here, her first book BEATING BACK THE DEVIL here and some of her magazine articles here. (Sadly, her old newspaper articles are stuck behind nefarious paywalls.)
SUPERBUG has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Science Friday and CBC's The Current as well as numerous other radio shows and print and online publications.
You can find Maryn on Twitter here and on Facebook here. For more about her writing, speaking, teaching and the personal stuff, check the "About" tab.
I subscribe to the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics and the Association of Health Care Journalists' statement of principles. I am a board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists and a member of the National Association of Science Writers, American Society of Journalists and Authors, National Federation of Press Women and Online News Association.
June 28, 2010
Category: infectious disease
In the winter of 1999, I stood in an outpatient clinic in a pediatric hospital in New Delhi and listened to a father sobbing over the paralysis of his only son. He was a farmer and lived in Uttar Pradesh;...
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June 24, 2010
Category: infectious disease
The CDC warns of the importation from South Asia of a novel resistance mechanism that may render gram-negative bacterial infections -- common among the sickest hospital patients -- completely untreatable.
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June 21, 2010
Category: personal
In case anyone's in the general vicinity of the Twin Cities this week: On Tuesday night, I'll be discussing antibiotic use in US agriculture at Fair Food Fight Night (a regular event sponsored by the food-policy blog Fair Food Fight)...
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June 17, 2010
Category: infectious disease
A bacterium known largely for attacking wounded veterans finds a niche in everyday life -- while becoming resistant to every antibiotic that could treat it.
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June 15, 2010
Category: news break
A report from a DC-based think tank analyzes drug resistance's impact on the developing world and calls out a lack of global leadership.
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Category: resistance
A Spanish research team reports in JAMA on the first nosocomial outbreak of linezolid-resistant staph that also retains the resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics that is the hallmark of MRSA.
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June 10, 2010
Category: public health
A coule of days ago, I talked about the link between a potentially massive hepatitis B outbreak in West Virginia and the lack of access to primary dental care. I was mushy qualitatively descriptive, ahem, about the number of people...
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June 9, 2010
Category: personal
A contest to get kids excited about reading and science seeks contributions from authors.
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June 8, 2010
Category: news break
The House of Representatives announces its second hearing this year on antibiotic resistance and drug development.
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June 7, 2010
Category: unintended consequences
What a hepatitis outbreak in West Virginia tells us about the need to fund preventive health care.
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