Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner. ...more

December 31, 2009

Adding another 1,500 square feet to a total of 19,500 square feet doesn't sound like much. ...more

March 20, 2009

Based on its ability to literally destroy a person's large intestine and resist attempts to treat it, the bacterium Clostridium difficile has been dubbed a "superbug." For nearly two decades researchers and clinicians had been trying with little success to tame C-diff as it spreads around the globe causing severe, life-threatening intestinal illness. ...more

March 4, 2009

A widow filed court papers last week that blame local health care providers for her husband's death from a virulent staph infection. ...more

January 7, 2009

A widow filed court papers last week that blame local health care providers for her husband's death. ...more

January 6, 2009

Ben Welch knows that he came close to death. And every time the 13-year-old Seffner boy runs a fever or gets a scratch, his family recalls the nearly two-year ordeal that cut short his soccer career and almost cut short his life. ...more

October 8, 2008

It's an old chestnut, something people say when they shake hands with a hero or get a debonair kiss of the hand from a celebrity dreamboat. ...more

August 30, 2008

A "Hannah Montana" star helped spread the word that "clean hands are cool hands" at a Pasco County elementary school Monday. ...more

August 27, 2008

Students at Trinity Elementary School and other Pasco schools are learning a simple way to combat a highly contagious bacterial disease: by washing their hands. ...more

August 27, 2008

Plenty of science percolated on this page over the last year, and today we look back at some of the more intriguing topics we had the pleasure of sharing with readers. ...more

December 31, 2007