Getting a flu shot is important for everyone, but it is very important for those with asthma because the flu can make asthma symptoms worse, U.S. officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality ...
U.S. pregnancy rates declined about 10 percent each for married and unmarried women since 1990, researchers say. Sally Curtin, Joyce Abma and Stephanie Ventura of the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease ...
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Almost 7-in-10 U.S. parents say they are concerned their children don't receive adequate physical education in school, a survey indicates. The NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey of 1,368 U.S. parents ...
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Risky sexual behavior is less prevalent among gay and bisexual men who know their HIV status than among those who don't, U.S. health statistics indicate. The Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, issued ...
Women who took oral contraceptives for three or more years are twice as likely to suffer from glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, a U.S. researcher says. Lead researcher Dr. Shan Lin, a professor of clinical ophthalmology at the ...
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Following U.S. Food and Drug Administration actions, USPLabs in Texas recalled and destroyed a supplement linked to liver failure and hepatitis, officials say. "As soon as we suspected a possible link between OxyElite Pro products and ...
One-in-nine U.S. children ages 4-17 were diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in 2011-12, and 6 percent were on medication, officials say. Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 2 million ...
On the CTIA pavilion (hall 15, booth E04) at the Medica tradefair in Dusseldorf, Germany (20-23 November), ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) of Columbia, SC, USA is introducing a new ...
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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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Waste-water treatment by-products, also known as sewage sludge, are frequently used as fertilizer. And that means whatever this stew of sewage leftovers contains, including substances hazardous to human and animal health, could potentially ...
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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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Princeton University can import a vaccine not yet authorized for use in the United States to halt a meningitis outbreak, federal officials said Friday. Seven students at the Ivy League institution in New Jersey have been diagnosed with ...
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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 ...