Silver
'Open up the conversation' about dietary supplements to prevent colloidal silver ingestion
Ingesting colloidal silver supplements is popular but unsafe and, in excess, can lead to a patient’s skin permanently turning blue, according to experts.
Healio wins MM+M silver award for best health care professional media brand
Healio won silver at the annual MM+M Awards in the category of best health care professional media brand.
Researchers test silver-coated screens to protect cell phones from contamination
Researchers tested the ability of a silver-coated antimicrobial screen to protect the cell phones of resident physicians against pathogens and found that the phones’ microbial diversity decreased significantly when tested at day 7 compared with days 0 and 30, but testing on day 30 showed no change in the microbiome of the phone screen.
Q&A: Nonprofit model for antibiotic development ‘overdue’
The antimicrobial market is broken and not everyone agrees on how to fix it.
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Blue Man Syndrome
Blue man syndrome, also known as argyria, can occur from long-term amiodarone use however was initially seen in silver toxicity.