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UCLA: Scientists Devise Method to Prevent Deadly Hospital Infections

A new surface treatment developed by a UCLA-led team of scientists could help improve the safety of medical devices like catheters, stents, heart valves and pacemakers — whose surfaces often become covered with harmful bacterial films that can cause deadly hospital “superbug” infections, according to findings published Thursday. About 1.7 million Americans pick up these […]

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