After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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U.S. health officials announced new guidance limits for antibiotics used for children due to the high amount of inappropriate uses of the drug. The report, Principles of Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing for Bacterial Upper Respiratory ...
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Electronic cigarette use doubled among U.S. middle school students from 0.6 percent in 2011 to 1.1 percent in 2012, health officials say. A report in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta received accreditation from the Emergency Management Accreditation Program. Accreditation requires a program to complete the six step EMAP process, including a self-assessment, an ...
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Federal officials identified a cluster of newborns in Tennessee with late vitamin K deficiency bleeding, a serious but preventable bleeding disorder. Preliminary findings of the investigation of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
For the week of Nov. 9, U.S. flu activity was low but increasing in the South, with the first two influenza-related pediatric deaths, health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the proportion of people ...
Many people who fall, even if not injured, develop a fear of falling and limit their physical activity, increasing their risk of falling, U.S. officials say. Dr. Judy Stevens of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta ...
Glass Onion Catering in Richmond, Calif., recalled about 182,000 pounds of salads and wraps after 26 people got sick eating their products, officials say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Sunday ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Sunovion Pharmaceuticals' (Sunovion) antiepileptic drug (AED) Aptiom (eslicarbazepine acetate) for the treatment of partial-onset seizures in patients with epilepsy. According to the ...
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Glass Onion Catering in Richmond, Calif., recalled about 182,000 pounds of salads and wraps after 26 people got sick eating their products, officials say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Sunday ...
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For the week ending Nov. 2, U.S. influenza activity remained low, but Mississippi reported moderate activity, federal health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said of 4,118 specimens tested 4.9 percent tested ...
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A flu shot can reduce the risk a person gets the flu, make the flu less severe if caught and help those who can't be vaccinated, a U.S. health official says. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service and ...
ICF International (ICFI) has secured a new contract from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to offer support to the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the ...
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The statistics can be staggering: one in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning this year (that's nearly 53 million people). A very likely place for food poisoning is in the home: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Costco’s El Camino Real store in San Francisco, Calif., is recalling an additional 14,093 units of rotisserie chicken products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food ...