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Americans Embrace Alternative Medicines, Especially for Pain
Close to 38% of the adult American population turns to complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) for treating what ails them and a growing number of parents allow their children to use them, too,...
View ArticleLatest Salmonella Outbreak Affects 42 States; Source Unknown
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating salmonella outbreaks in 42 states that may be linked but the original source of contamination is still unknown. Problems began...
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Peanut Butter Recalled in Latest Salmonella Scare
King Nut Companies, an Ohio-based regional distributor of peanut butter, has announced it is recalling two lines of peanut butter it ships, but does not manufacture, in response to the news that...
View ArticleDrug-Resistant ‘Superbug’ Infections Rising Alarmingly in US Children; Ears,...
Research scientists from Emory University issued a report on Monday, January 19, that the number of children in the United States becoming infected with the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...
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CDC: Sleeping with Parents Raises Risk of Infant Death
The February issue of the journal, ‘Pediatrics,’ carries a report from US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warning parents against sleeping with their babies. The warning is based on a...
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Food Isn’t Always Source for Salmonella Outbreaks
Think of Salmonella infection and most people think about food. The current outbreak of infection traced to peanut butter and last year’s tomato scare put food-borne outbreaks in the headlines but...
View ArticleRocket Fueled Baby Formula ‘Safe’ Says Industry Council
The rocket fuel in powdered baby formula is ‘safe,’ according to Haley Curtis Stevens, spokesperson for the International Formula Council, which represents the infant formula industry. Stevens says...
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CDC: Americans Consume Too Much Salt
According to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most Americans consume too much salt for optimum health. Almost 145 million adults (69%) are considered...
View ArticleCDC Rethinking School Closings for Swine Flu
Earlier today, Dr. Richard Besser announced the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rethinking its current recommendation for closing schools when students or faculty become sick...
View ArticleAll 50 US States Have Confirmed Swine Flu Cases
Schools all across the United States are on the verge of closing but, this time, it’s for the summer holidays and not the swine flu. That doesn’t mean swine flu is no longer cause for alarm, though....
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CDC Evaluates State Disaster Preparedness Programs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report last week that describes and evaluates the level of preparedness in the face of catastrophic events such as natural disaster,...
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Changes to Next Season’s Flu Vaccine
To keep up with the latest influenza outbreaks caused by strains that are not included in the current vaccine, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee recommended that producers...
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CDC Reacted Too Late to Formaldahyde in FEMA Trailers
It looks like FEMA is in trouble again. The CDC is now saying that tests on hundreds of FEMA trailers for victims of disaster had formaldehyde levels five times higher than what is normal. The results...
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Vaccine – Autism Link, Afterall?
Officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have agreed that vaccines administered to a 9-year old girl contributed to her condition. Hannah Poling of Athens, GA, and her family may...
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1 in 4 Teen Girls Has STD
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just issued the alarming findings of its first ever survey of teen health which included sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In the study, the...
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90,000 Babies In US Mistreated During First Year of Life
Researchers for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported the findings of a study that identifies more than 90,000 infants who were neglected or received poor parental care...
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Mom’s Smoking Causes Fetal Heart Defects
Everyone knows there are some very serious risks associated with smoking cigarettes and the risks affect the baby a woman carries when she chooses to smoke during pregnancy. A recent study, funded by...
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CDC Says Not Much Progress in Fight Against Foodborne Illness
“More needs to be done,” according to Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His assessment is based on 2007 data taken from the CDC’s Foodborne...
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The Lowdown on Postpartum Depression
Ten to 15 out of every 100 mothers report feelings of depression during the first year after giving birth. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently analyzed data taken from...
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Flu Bug Bites Hard This Year
News published online Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes statistics for this year’s influenza season. It was the worst of the last three seasons. Flu season...
View ArticleExercise Very Important for Diabetics With Arthritis
Exercise is a vital component in the treatment of both arthritis and diabetes and diabetics are diagnosed with arthritis at almost double the rate of the general population. However, the nature of...
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Survey Says 7-8 Hours Sleep Best; More or Less Is Risky
The average adult needs between seven and eight hours of sleep each night for optimum health. Getting less than that, and getting more than that, signals health risks linked to poor lifestyle choices...
View ArticleOver 60? New Shingles Vaccine Highly Recommended
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly recommend a new vaccine, Zostavax, for anyone age 60 or older. The vaccine reduces the incidence of painful shingles, also known as herpes...
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Big Tomatoes Cause Big Problems in 9 States
Roma and other large-sized tomatoes have been linked to a Salmonella outbreak that spans nine states, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although the tomatoes in...
View ArticleTeen Behavior Less Risky Today Than a Generation Ago
The 2007 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey compared data taken from a similar survey in 1991 and finds that many of today’s teens are making wiser lifestyle choices than those of a generation ago....
View ArticleAIDS Increasing When Men Have Sex With Men
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new report on the growing number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the population of men having sex with men, or MSM, a term public health...
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Tainted Tomatoes Still a Mystery
More than two weeks after public health officials in the United States issued a warning to consumers against eating certain types of tomatoes linked to more than 800 cases of salmonella infection, the...
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Young American Women Getting Tanned to Death
The most lethal form of skin cancer is on the rise in American women aged 15 to 39, according to data provided by the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, operated by the National...
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Land of Plenty Has Too Many Pounds
When our ancestors hailed the United States as the “Land of Plenty,” it’s hardly likely they meant plenty of pounds. With the obesity epidemic spreading from sea to shining sea, however, the one thing...
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Texas Packing Plant in Hot Seat Over Salmonella-Tainted Jalapenos
The rare strain of Salmonella that has made more than 1,000 people sick in the US and Canada has been identified as coming from a small packing plant in South Texas, according to Dr. David Acheson,...
View ArticleGround Zero Residents to Finally Get Medical Treatment
People from all walks of life were affected by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Many people sickened or injured by the billowing dust clouds and debris...
View ArticleBootleg Fentanyl Caused Overdose Epidemic
April 21, 2006, was marked by an extreme number of overdoses in Camden, New Jersey, with reports of similar overdose outbreaks coming in from other parts of the state as well as from Maryland, Chicago,...
View ArticleSerrano Peppers Latest Villain in Salmonella Saga
In the continuing search for the source of the Salmonella saintpaul outbreak that has made hundreds of consumers in the United States and Canada sick over the last few months, investigators now say...
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Diabetes Before Pregnancy Increases Risk of Birth Defects
An extensive study conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed the elevated risk of birth defects in women diagnosed with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes before...
View ArticleConcerns for travelers to China Olympics
Almost a million travelers from around the world are expected to travel to Beijing next week for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Another couple of million Chinese citizens are expected to travel to the...
View ArticleAmerica’s Doctors Saw More Than 1 Billion Patients in 2006
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just released new statistics pertaining to the way Americans use their doctors’ offices, hospitals, and emergency departments (EDs). The...
View ArticleCDC Wants More HIV Testing Done in US
The diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a life-altering moment that comes with some really big decisions to make. One of the most important of those decisions is the course of...
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CDC: US AIDS Epidemic Far From Over
Statisticians for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had predicted that about 40,000 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS (acquired...
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US Falls to #29 In World Infant Mortalities
According to a statement released today from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States falls at #29 in rank for the number of infants who die during their first year of...
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CDC Says One in Four Girls Now Vaccinated Against Cancer
In the first government-backed survey conducted since Gardasil, the vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV), made its market debut in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Smoking on (Very Slow) Decline in US
In conjunction with the upcoming 2008 Great American Smokeout (November 20), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a status report of the national effort to reduce...
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CDC Says Americans Just Not Exercising Enough
Seems every diet book ever published has a chapter devoted to exercise but it’s probably the least likely chapter to be read. Or followed. The Institute of Medicine also tells us how much exercise we...
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