Ellen Jan Kleinerman is the health reporter for the Plain Dealer who wrote the story. (linked below)
- Last month, Listeria-infected cantaloupes were linked to 23 deaths nationally.This is a kind of super-bacteria.... It's more heat resistant than salmonella and E. coli, it can grow in temperatures as high as 150 degrees. Freezing doesn't seem to alter it.
- Is there a sure Defense?
[Wash all fruits and vegetables under running water just before eating, cutting or cooking. Even if you plan to cut the skin off, wash the outside of the vegetable or fruit]
- If it can live in what they call a 'warm refrigerator'... what temperature should your fridge be set to?
[40 degrees or lower and the freezer at 0 degrees or lower.]
The other item up for discussion today - even more distasteful - colostomies.A Cleveland doctor and an Akron woman launched a rescue mission to help these patients live more comfortably.
- Life used to be pretty difficult for colostomy patents.
- The Cleveland Clinic School of Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nursing, which is marking its 50th anniversary this year. This was the first such school in the world.
