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MRSA DIGGING IN
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DANGEROUS ANTIBIOTlC-RESISTANT BACTERIA are gaining afootholo'
in the natural environment, suggests recent research from the UW
School of Public Health. A team of researchers in the Department of
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences found methicillin-
l  resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at ve of 10 Washington
state beaches sampled in 2008, they reported in the journal ofAntimi-

1  crobial Chemotherapy in December.
'   "In the last few years, community-acquired MRSA has become a big prob-

"  lem, and this is in populations that are generally not considered high risk for
Staph infection," explains Professor Marilyn Roberts, leader of the research team.
"So we are really interested in looking at where MRSA can be in the environment."
No one had ever reported isolating MRSA from public marine beaches Roberts is currently
seeking funding to nd out how MRSA colonizes beaches, how long it persists, and what activities pose the greatest level of
MRSA-related riSk for beachgoers. In the mean time, there's no need to stay away from the beach, Roberts
says. 5D







THE WORLD'S SMALLEST MICROSCOPE, just onetenth of an inch in
diameter, is helping doctors at the UW Medical Center diagnose
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cancers of the digestive system. Attached to a exible tube, it can be
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cious cells inside the body and pinpoint exactly where they want to
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biopsy. The microscope is calle  the Cellvizio, and only 40 of them exist
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AN INEXPENSIVE, NONINVASIVE TEST can accurately detect breast

cancer in younger women, and has the potential to spare thou-
sands from unnecessary surgeries and biopsies, according to new
research led by Constance Lehman, UW professor of radiology and
director of imaging at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
The research, presented at a recent meeting of the Radiologi-
cal Society of America, consisted of two studies involving more
than 2,600 women younger than 40 who had identied a lump in a
breast. A technique called targeted ultrasound, which uses sound
waves to create an image of the area of the breast where the lump
is found, caught 100 percent of the cancers among the women.
Many breast lumps, especially in younger women like those
studied here, aren't cancerous. Compared with mammography, ultrasound is better able to detect breast changes
in younger women, whose breast tissue is frequently denser. Moreover, in many of the
women studied, ultrasound

was able to conrm that a lump was benignsuggesting that the technique could enable some women to avoid
the pain and worry of surgery or biopsy. $.D.

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