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1. Buying chicken at a Somerset supermarket? Three quarters of them are… Nearly three-quarters of supermarket chickens are contaminated with a potentially deadly bug, making it the biggest food safety concern in the UK, the Food Standards Agency has said. The FSA tests found Asda had the highest rate of contamination in its fresh whole chickens at 80{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}, followed by Co-op with 78{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}, Morrisons with 76{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}, Waitrose with 74{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}, and Tesco and Marks and Spencer with 67{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}....
2. 5th Annual UGA Health Care Symposium   The 5th Annual UGA Health Care Symposium   January 25, 2013   read more...
3. Norman learns to show respect . . . again I had the pleasure of meeting Norman Faull late last year in Johannesburg when we presented together some thoughts on process improvement to South African hospital folks. He is as kind, thoughtful, and respectful a person as you could imagine. So when he reports that he is not necessarily respectful, I take notice. His message is important, so please stick with me--especially if you are a Lean advocate or practitioner.Here's a recent column he wrote. Excerpts:Some of us are not very good at showing respect.‘Show respect’ is one of the core calls we make to lean leaders. That simple phrase...
4. Drug ads lead to better health Direct-to-consumer advertising, like those prescription drug commercials that air between your favorite shows, are actually paying off with better health outcomes for patients, according to a recently published study by Jayani Jayawardhana, an assistant professor in the College of Public Health. read more...
5. Epstein-Barr virus co-infection may boost malaria mortality in childhood Malaria researchers are calling attention to a trouble-maker whose effects may be underappreciated: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Their experiments with mice show that co-infection with a virus closely related to EBV can make a survivable malaria parasite infection lethal....