Sunday, December 30, 2012

Michigan hospital blazes trail in fight against fungal meningitis

Bonita Robbins, a patient suffering with arachnoiditis due to a contaminated steroid injection, sits on her hospital bed as she and her husband Ed listen to Infectious Diseases doctor Anurag Malani at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital in Ypsilanti,CHICAGO (Reuters) - After his first day working at St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital's newly created Fungal Outbreak Clinic, Dr David Vandenberg struggled to describe to his boss the enormity of what lay ahead. He settled on a line from the movie Jaws. "We're going to need a bigger boat," Vandenberg told Dr Lakshmi Halasyamani, chief medical officer of the Michigan hospital, echoing the film's local police chief after he first eyes a 25-foot (7.5-metre) killer shark. The St Joseph Mercy clinic has been at the front line of the fight against one of the biggest ever U.S. ...


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