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Hospital disinfectants' quality at issue
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One common - and ironic - way to contract an infection is to
spend a few days in the hospital.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 5 percent of
all patients come down with an infection - including potentially
life-threatening microbial invasions of the lungs or the bloodstream
- while hospitalized.
An estimated 20,000 Americans die each year as a result of
hospital-acquired infections, and 60,000 deaths are indirectly linked
to such infections, which can worsen a patient's primary condition
and undermine the immune system.
Why does this happen, despite efforts by ...
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For Anna Akhmatova.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Prairie Schooner
; For Anna Akhmatova Who had been in love with her that summer? Did it matter? The...howled in indignation, more like the peasant she had come to resemble than Anna Comnena or Cleopatra or the ikon of words who was asked by other women at the prison...
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Women of Byzantium.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...imperial wife, and the historian Anna Comnena as a "passionate voice." In part...218). Yet Connor herself records Anna Comnena's condemnation of "the scandal...was noticed by this reviewer is of Anna for her "snobbish attitude" in...
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Books in Brief
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...historian with a secret obsession for 11th century writer Anna Comnena, murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked...fabulous they are. The history of the First Crusade and Comnena, whom Kristeva characterizes as the first major female...
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Page turners; Murder and intrigue span the globe, from Byzantium to Burundi. Who's guilty? Reviewer Yvonne Zipp is on the case.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...historian with a secret obsession for 11th-century writer Anna Comnena murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked...are. The history of the first Crusade and the life of Comnena, whom Kristeva characterizes as the first major female...
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Bloodstock Desk: maiden winner of the day.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; ...modern breeding take heart; Goslar's got it. Anna Of Brunswick's siblings include Group 3 mile-and-a-half winner Anno Luce, Anna Comnena, dam of the smart Sadlers Wings, and Anna Matrushka, whose progeny include Annaba...
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Flat Stable Tour - Brian Meehan: Ready to build on best-ever start.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; ...enough when he appears at Brighton on Thursday. He'll never set the world alight, but he'll win. Gipsy Anna b f Marju - Anna Comnena She won both her races last season, at Haydock and Newbury, then picked up an injury. At this moment she...
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The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...child welfare in the Byzantine empire, the author quotes Anna Comnena on three twelfth-century strategies for the care of...orphanages. What follows is "an extended commentary on Anna's two-sentence passage," covering the whole millennium...
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Julia Kristeva, Murder in Byzantium.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Comparatist
; ...and, more strangely, that he had fallen in love with Anna Comnena, the twelfth-century Byzantine princess and the main...detective" (75); and other characters, Sebastian and Anna, can also be seen as doubles of the author. In short...
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The Illyrians.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...their early history down to the Roman conquest; and "Roman Illyrians," taking the story from the Roman Republic to Anna Comnena. It is all carefully documented, with numerous references to primary sources and to modern scholarship. Misprints...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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What book?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Donna Leon . . .ARE YOU READING NOW? THE Alexiad Of Anna Comnena (Penguin, [pound]10.99). She was the daughter of the 11th-century emperor of Byzantium and wrote his biography. She...
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