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Aimee Copeland | The Augusta Chronicle

...May of 2012 because of a devastating infection called necrotizing fasciitis, which...fight to survive and recover from the infection attracted nationwide attention. One...two months in Augusta for a devastating infection, she's about to finish a master's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/topics/people/aimee-copeland
Ken Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies

...hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia, and then an intestinal infection that he could no longer fight.Venturi died 11 days after he was inducted into the World Golf...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-05-17/ken-venturi-us-open-champion
Ken Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies

...hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia, and then an intestinal infection that he could no longer fight.Venturi died 12 days after he was inducted into the World Golf...

http://augusta.com/masters/story/news/latest-news/ken-venturi-us-open-champion-a
Aimee Copeland getting bionic hands

...leg, right foot and both hands to a devastating bacterial infection, the Snellville, Ga., resident said her academic background...psychology and a strong spiritual grounding helped her face the infection that almost took her life."Having that confrontation with...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-12/aimee-copeland-getting-bionic
Former Steeler Hall of Famer Jack Butler dies at 85

...Steelers, died Satur day after a lengthy battle with a staph infection. He was 85.Butler's son John said his father's heart...the past several months in the hospital dealing with a staph infection that plagued him since his career ended in 1959."It had...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/nfl/2013-05-11/former-steeler-hall-famer-jac
Doctors Hospital tops in charges but Georgia Regents Medical Center gets most pay, data shows

...Doctors was the highest among Augusta hospitals, often significantly higher. Its $342,443 average charge for treating major infections with surgery and major complications was the highest charge of any listed in Georgia. Doctors e-mailed a response Wednesday...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-05-08/doctors-hospital-tops-charge
New technology IDs infections

...against known reference sequences for 15 common viruses and three bacteria known to cause respiratory infections.Many of these infections show the same symptoms, said Dr. Dennis L, Murray, the chief of pediatric infectious disease at Georgia...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-01-19/new-technology-ids-infection
456 Atlanta colonoscopy patients warned of infection risk

ATLANTA -- An Atlanta surgery center is warning 456 patients that their colonoscopies might have put them at risk of HIV.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-05-01/456-atlanta-colonoscopy-pati
Bat-killing disease migrating south

...It's been steadily advancing south since its discovery in 2006 among bats hibernating in a New York cave. A fungal infection in the soil that leaves bats with white residue on their faces, WNS has spread to 22 states and five Canadian provinces...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-05-04/bat-killing-disease-migrating-south
FDA flags Martinez compounding pharmacy recall of eye drug

...of the Roche drug Avastin after receiving reports of eye infections among patients.The FDA said Wednesday that Clinical Specialties of Martinez has received five reports of eye infections from physicians who used the drug to treat macular degeneration...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-03-20/fda-flags-martinez-compoun