Public health policy initiatives and community health outcomes have never been more important. On a global scale, this is generally managed by the World Health Organization, an agency empowered by the...
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CDC Workers Canvass East Palestine To Investigate Health Risks From Trail Derailment
Topline Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrived in East Palestine, Ohio, Saturday to investigate the possible health risks stemming from a recent train derailment, after ...
Hispanic dialysis patients face 40% higher risk of staph infection than whites, CDC says
A COVID-19 patient using a ventilator rests while his blood goes through a kidney dialysis machine (L) on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) floor at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center on April 21, 2020 i...
CDC urges immunocompromised to take precautions after Evusheld pulled
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday urged people with weak immune systems to take extra precautions to avoid Covid after the dominant omicron subvariants knocked out a key antibod...
Just 28% Of Americans Are Exercising Enough, CDC Says—And It’s Even Lower In Some Regions
Topline Only 28% of Americans are meeting physical activity guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a study from the agency released Thursday that also found Ame...
CDC Exploring Possible But Unlikely Link Between Covid-19 Bivalent Booster And Strokes
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said Friday a possible link has been identified between Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent Covid-19 vaccine and isch...
Pfizer Covid booster likely doesn’t carry seniors’ stroke risk: CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said it is “very unlikely” the Pfizer omicron booster carries a risk of stroke for seniors after it launched an investigation into ...
Sarah Silverman Is Producing A Documentary On America’s Insulin Crisis
LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 05: Sarah Silverman attends the premiere of Disney’s ‘Ralph Breaks the … [+] Internet’ at El Capitan Theatre on November 5, 2018 in Los Angeles...
Is Monty Python ‘Silly Walk’ Good Exercise? Here’s What A Study Showed
Doing the John Cleese “Silly Walk” just 11 minutes a day could get you past the 75 minutes of … [+] vigorous physical activity per week threshold that the Centers of Disease Control ...
Norovirus Outbreak Linked To Raw Oysters From Texas, At Least 211 Ill
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has ordered a recall of all oysters that were … [+] harvested from November 17, 2022, through December 7, 2022 from the TX 1 area of southeas...
Should You Get A Covid Booster? CDC Says They Cut Risk Of Hospitalization In Half
Topline Adults who received a shot of the updated Covid-19 bivalent booster were less than half as likely to need hospital treatment than unvaccinated adults, according to a new report from the Center...
Long Covid Has Claimed At Least 3,500 In The U.S. So Far, CDC Report Says
Topline Long Covid has been linked to at least 3,544 deaths in the United States so far, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which places a spotlight on t...
Abortion pill most common way to end pregnancy, CDC says
Boxes of the medication Mifepristone used to induce a medical abortion are prepared for patients at Planned Parenthood health center in Birmingham, Alabama, March 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters ...
Deaths From Alcohol—On The Rise For Decades—Soared During Covid Pandemic, CDC Says
Topline Deaths directly linked to alcohol rose sharply during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, acceler...
Airline Refund Rules Have Changed, But Opportunities Still Exist
Customers expect a refund when an airline cancels their flight. But what if you’re encouraged not to … [+] fly? Airline refunds are subject to tough economic realities and regulations change slo...
CDC is discussing using oral polio vaccine for first time in 20 years to stop New York outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering using the oral polio vaccine for the first time in more than 20 years to stop an outbreak in the greater New York City metropolitan area t...
CDC to protect access to free Covid vaccines for uninsured kids
A child is administered a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pediatric vaccine. Mayela Lopez | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a major step Wednesda...
Tucker Carlson Incorrectly Claims CDC Mandating Kids Get Covid-19 Vaccine For School
Tucker Carlson, seen here in July 2022 with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) and former U.S. … [+] President Donald Trump (R), made some claims about the CDC, Covid-19 vaccines, and schoo...
Omicron BA.5 is declining as emerging variants gain ground: CDC data
The U.S. faces at least seven different versions of Covid-19 omicron as the nation heads into winter when health officials are expecting another wave of viral infections. Although the omicron BA.5 var...
CDC Asks U.S. Physicians To Monitor For Ebola As Uganda Outbreak Grows
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked U.S. health care practitioners on Thursday to monitor for potential Ebola infections, as an outbreak of the disease in Uganda impacts dozen...
Monkeypox unlikely to be eliminated in the U.S., CDC says
The monkeypox virus is unlikely to be eliminated from the U.S. in the near future, according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week. The CDC, in a technical ...
Unvaccinated 14 Times More Likely To Contract Disease Than Those Without Shot, CDC Says
Topline People vaccinated against monkeypox were 14 times less likely than those who were not vaccinated to contract the disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky ...
A single dose of monkeypox vaccine provides some protection against infection, CDC says
Los Angeles, CA – August 10: Luis Garcia, a registered nurse, prepares Monkeypox virus vaccine at St.John’s Well Child & Family Center on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. I...
HIV positive people hospitalized with monkeypox more often, CDC says
People living with HIV who have monkeypox are hospitalized more than twice as often as other patients diagnosed with the rapidly spreading virus, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Cont...
CDC’s Walensky Signs Off On Omicron Booster–Here’s When You Can Get One
Topline Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signed off on Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated Covid-19 booster shots targeting the virulent omicron var...
CDC Advisory Panel Recommends New Covid Booster Shots Targeting Omicron—Here’s What You Need To Know
Topline A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee on Thursday recommended Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s updated Covid-19 booster shots targeting the extremely contagious omicron ...
CDC panel recommends new omicron Covid boosters with shots expected to begin next week
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent committee on vaccines recommended reformulated booster shots that target the latest omicron subvariant...
Two Years Of Covid Caused The Steepest Drop In U.S. Life Expectancy In Nearly 100 Years, CDC Data Reveals
Topline Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021—largely fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic—according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
CDC cautiously optimistic outbreak might be slowing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is cautiously optimistic that the U.S. is slowing the spread of monkeypox as new cases fall in several major cities. “We’re watching this wit...
CDC ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About Falling Rates Of Infections—But Racial Disparities Spark Concern
Topline Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said she felt “cautiously optimistic” about the monkeypox outbreak in the U.S., with new infection rates declining as the ...