Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
hideThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services based in the Metro Atlanta area, adjacent to the campus of Emory University and northeast of downtown Atlanta. It works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions, and it promotes health through partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
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News tagged with centers for disease control and prevention
Debunking myths about warm-ups, eggs
May 29, 2009 |
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There are so many things to worry about these days. Wouldn't it be nice to cross something off the list? Turns out you can. Researchers have been busy debunking some common medical myths that have been repeated so many times, ...
Mexicans put faith in masks -- but do they work?
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The cloth patches in green, blue and white are everywhere, clamped tight over the mouth and nose of teachers, toddlers, policemen and drunks. Even the statue at the church of St. Jude, patron of lost ...
WHO worries Mexico flu deaths could mark pandemic
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Mexican authorities said 60 people may have died from a swine flu virus in Mexico, and world health officials worry it could unleash a global flu epidemic. Mexico City closed schools across the metropolis ...
New arenavirus discovered as cause of hemorrhagic fever outbreak in South Africa and Zambia
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases of National Health Laboratory Service (NICD-NHLS), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Common household pesticides linked to childhood cancer cases in Washington area
Jul 28, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at the Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center finds a higher level of common household pesticides in the urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer that develops ...
The Medical Minute: A true or false quiz on vaccines
Aug 06, 2009 |
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True or false?
New survey results show huge burden of diabetes
Jan 26, 2009 |
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In the United States, nearly 13 percent of adults age 20 and older have diabetes, but 40 percent of them have not been diagnosed, according to epidemiologists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for ...
US swine flu cases now exceed 21,000; 87 deaths
Jun 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The national count of swine flu cases has risen to 21,449 cases and the number of deaths have nearly doubled to 87.
Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.
Toxins in Lake Michigan fish linked to diabetes
Aug 31, 2009 |
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This is a fish tale in which smaller is better than bigger, especially if the catch is to be eaten in any quantity.
WHO: nearly 5,000 swine flu deaths worldwide
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nearly 5,000 people have reportedly died from swine flu since it emerged this year and developed into a global epidemic, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Swine flu virus starting to look less threatening
May 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The swine flu virus that has frightened the world is beginning to look a little less ominous. New York City officials reported Friday that the swine flu still has not spread beyond a few schools. ...
Vitamin D's role in preventing asthma studied in pregnant women
Oct 01, 2009 |
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A group of pregnant women who have asthma or allergies will get extra vitamin D as part of a study to determine if the vitamin can prevent their children from developing asthma.
CDC: 76 children dead of swine flu as cases rise
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Health officials said Friday that 76 children have died of swine flu, including 16 new reports in the past week - more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous in kids.
Experts baffled by deadly outbreak of meningitis
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Local, state and national health experts are baffled as to how a rare and deadly strain of meningitis killed four people and infected eight others in South Florida since December, an unprecedented outbreak in the United States.
