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Michigan hospital blazes trail in fight against fungal meningitis Dec 30th 2012, 12:04 CHICAGO (Reuters) - After his first day working at St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital's newly created Fungal Outbreak Clinic, Dr David Vandenberg struggled to describe to his boss the enormity of what lay ahead. He settled on a line from the movie Jaws. "We're going to need a bigger boat," Vandenberg told Dr Lakshmi Halasyamani, chief medical officer of the Michigan hospital, echoing the film's local police chief after he first eyes a 25-foot (7.5-metre) killer shark. The St Joseph Mercy clinic has been at the front line of the fight against one of the biggest ever U.S. ... Media files: 2012-12-30T120414Z_1_CBRE8BT0XJ900_RTROPTP_2_USA-MENINGITIS-MICHIGAN.JPG (image/jpeg) EPA faces legal battles, might take easy confirmation road Dec 30th 2012, 10:10 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regardless of who takes the reins, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will likely face continued legal battles in President Barack Obama's second term as it tries to finalize pollution rules for power plants, analysts said. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who spearheaded the Obama administration's regulation of carbon emissions, said on Thursday she will step down after almost four years. Her tenure was marked by opposition from industry groups and Republican lawmakers to the EPA's first-ever crackdown on carbon emissions, as well as other anti-pollution measures. ... Media files: 2012-12-30T101014Z_1_CBRE8BT0SAM00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG (image/jpeg)

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