Subject: Buy Silver?!?!?!......
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 200357 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
I'll bet that Warren Buffet knew this first.... A few months
ago when he started buying silver?????
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
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05:00 PM ET 04/08/98
Silver-coated catheter reduces infection, study shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A silver-coated catheter reduces the
rate of urinary tract infections by as much as 58 percent,
researchers said Wednesday.
Three different teams told a conference that the Bardex
infection control catheter, made by New Jersey-based
medical products manufacturer C.R. Bard Inc, worked to prevent
infections in patients.
Urinary tract infections account for more than 40 percent of
all hospital-acquired infections, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Three different studies presented at the Society for
Healthcare Epidemiology of America meeting found that Bard's
silver-coated catheter reduced hospital infections by anywhere
between 30 and 58 percent.
``Little progress has been made in controlling these
infections over the last 35 years,'' Dr. Dennis Maki of the
University of Wisconsin said in a statement.
``This is the first time we have seen a catheter that
provides substantial protection against catheter-associated
urinary tract infection,'' he said.
Silver has been touted for centuries as having antimicrobial
effects.
About 90,000 people die every year from hospital-acquired
infections.
^REUTERS@
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