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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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 ...
CDC: About 1 in 6 Americans have had swine flu (Update)
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday.
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.
Frozen assets: Researchers turn to unique resource for clues to norovirus evolution
Oct 01, 2009 |
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A search through decades-old frozen infant stool samples has yielded rich dividends for scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The team ...
Bacteria co-infections common in swine flu deaths: CDC
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Many people who have died from swine flu in the United States were also infected with other bacteria, including one which can cause pneumonia or meningitis, US health officials said Wednesday.
US says first swine flu vaccine to arrive Oct. 5
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The first swine flu vaccine should be in some doctors' offices as early as Oct. 5, U.S. health officials said Friday.
Study: Flu shot better than nasal spray in adults
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A flu shot is 50 percent more effective than nasal spray vaccine in preventing seasonal influenza in healthy adults, a new University of Michigan study shows.
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.
CDC says life expectancy in US up, deaths not
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday. The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes ...
Study: 1918 flu survivors seem immune to swine flu
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The way swine flu multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than ordinary winter flu, a new study in animals finds.
New device measures heart health with drop of blood
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Is your heart sound? To answer that question, all assistant professor Shashi Murthy needs is a single drop of your blood.
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 ...
Utah and Arizona report swine flu-related deaths
May 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Utah officials reported the state's first death associated with swine flu and Arizona recorded that state's third victim, pushing the national death toll to 10 people.
GlaxoSmithKline taking pandemic vaccine orders
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Friday it has received orders from several countries to stockpile pandemic vaccine as soon as it gets the vaccine's key ingredient from the World Health Organization.
