MRSA

Kent County Undersheriff Jon Hess said he is pulling the disinfectant spray Glybet after inmates complained of breathing problems after its misuse by inmates and staff. Hess said Glybet Citrus is used by to ward off dangerous staph infections like MRSA. ...

Thirty five years after the Food and Drug Administration determined the routine use of antibiotics in livestock feed could pose a danger to human health, a federal court Thursday compelled the agency to act on that knowledge.  The ruling, which came in...

It's nearly spring, temperatures in the 70s, yet the flu waited until now to ramp up in Maryland, killing three members of a Calvert County family. Usually, flu season strikes earlier. By this time last year, the flu had been widespread and had already...

Lou Ruth Blake was the family's matriarch who sang in the church choir and organized gospel shows. Lowell Frederick Blake liked to make people laugh. Venessa Marie Blake was the ardent churchgoer with a contagious smile. All three family members died...

State health officials say today that lab tests confirm all four members of a Calvert County family striken with a severe respiratory illness in recent weeks had the H3N2 strain of influenza A, a strain of the flu that has been going around this season....

The food policy news just keeps sliding in like so much pink slime. Here's a fresh-ish batch of it: SHARK FINS: Yesterday the Illinois House passed a bill to ban the sale, trade and distribution of shark fins, which are used in Chinese delicacies...

A new bill that is getting a hearing in Springfield today was inspired by microbiological testing done by an Arizona mom and professor at fast food play lands all over the nation. Erin Carr-Jordan says she has taken dozens of swabs, sealed them, chilled...

If you’ve been hoping for an update on sustainable meat news, you're in luck because here it is: In recent days and months an increasing number of food companies including Smithfield, McDonald’s,  Bon Appetit Management and Hormel have...

GLAMIS — Carlos Don of Ramona had always loved riding in the dunes so it made sense to celebrate what would have been his 18th birthday Sunday atop one of the highest points here. Don died in 2007 at age 12 of pneumonia caused by a methicillin-...

Gary Bruce Barnes   Gary Bruce Barnes passed away December 28, 2011, in Los Angeles, CA, at the age of 54.  Gary had been recently discharged from USC Medical Center where, for the previous 3 months, he had fought a very hard, life threatening battle...

He gets around, that George Washington. Spit crisp and slick from the ATM, he slides in and out of wallets, waiters' aprons, beggars' coffee cups, deli cash registers, the pockets of teens' jeans. Countless anonymous fingers have fondled that buck of...