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Rising Rates of Hospital Infections

By Laura Knoy on Monday, September 1, 2008.

It’s a national problem. More and more patients are going in the hospital sick or injured and become sicker or even die from bacteria and illnesses they pick up during their stay. Two years ago, New Hampshire passed a law requiring hospitals to report their infection rates, but little has happened on that score. We’ll find out why and look at how this issue is more complicated than it appears.

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The World at Work

By NHPR Staff on Monday, September 1, 2008.

The Exchange takes a break for a Labor Day special by the World Vision Report. Around the globe men and women are constantly seeking new ways to make a living. In a small African village they’re using peanut butter to get out of poverty. In India, women rent their wombs to childless couples in the West and in Ghana, coffin makers produce custom made boxes that reflect what the dead did for a living.

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