Articles Archive for February 2011
You’ve probably played Monopoly or Scrabble a gazillion times, so answer this: Who invented these games? Chances are you don’t know and are surprised you never thought about it. Board game designers have traditionally been an anonymous lot in America, but small and medium-sized companies are driving a change.
Scientists have discovered a protein that helps Staphylococcus epidermidis – one of the most common causes of health care-associated infections – escape from bacterial communities formed on catheters. It’s too soon to say, but the findings could reduce the estimated $28 billion to $45 billion that hospitals annually spend on health care-associated infections.