Six months later, he was taken to the hospital after developing a runny nose and fever.

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Furthermore, more than half of all hospital beds in developing countries are occupied by patients suffering from water and sanitation related diseases.

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Suggestions include buying more police boats, developing a system to track patients after hospital evacuations and lining up more generators, boilers and electrical repair gear.

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McCall also paid tribute to Ulster and Ireland hooker Simon Best, who was rushed to hospital in France on Wednesday night after developing a loss of sensation down his right side.

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But ViroPharma, a small Pennsylvania company, is developing a nontoxic strain of Clostridium difficile to help treat hospital infections.

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Philips is developing the technology as a contactless system to keep a virtual eye on hospital patients, such as newborn babies, who might find conventional monitors distressing.

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He'd spent eight years developing a special kind of Foley catheter--a flexible tube inserted into the bladder of hospital patients and disabled people to drain urine--that staved off inevitable infections.

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