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Health

The Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Seeks A New Director

The Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Seeks A New Director

The Bush administration is looking for a new administrator of the National Institute for...
» read full story July 04th, 2008 - 17:04
Ingredients in Fresh Salsa Now Probed in Salmonella Outbreak

Ingredients in Fresh Salsa Now Probed in Salmonella Outbreak

Beginning with Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded salmonella probe...
» read full story July 03rd, 2008 - 12:55
Kroger Expands Beef Recall, Ralphs Replaces Tainted Meat

Kroger Expands Beef Recall, Ralphs Replaces Tainted Meat

The Ralphs supermarket chain has first pulled off suspected ground beef from its shelves in...
» read full story July 02nd, 2008 - 21:03
Update: Authorities Question Tomato-Related Salmonella Outbreak

Update: Authorities Question Tomato-Related Salmonella Outbreak

The largest salmonella outbreak in the U.S. has caused a lot of questioning about the so-said...
» read full story June 28th, 2008 - 17:13
CDC: Tomato-Borne Salmonella Infections Reach 756

CDC: Tomato-Borne Salmonella Infections Reach 756

Tomato-borne salmonella infection continues to ravage the US population, according to the latest...
» read full story June 27th, 2008 - 15:13
CDC: Young Gay Men Face Highest HIV Rates, 12 Percent

CDC: Young Gay Men Face Highest HIV Rates, 12 Percent

A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released in this week’s issue...
» read full story June 27th, 2008 - 13:40
HIV Cases Skyrocket among Young Gay Men

HIV Cases Skyrocket among Young Gay Men

A new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that between 2001 and 2006...
» read full story June 26th, 2008 - 23:51
CDC Adds Glaxo’s Rotavirus Vaccine After Merck’s Proves Efficient

CDC Adds Glaxo’s Rotavirus Vaccine After Merck’s Proves Efficient

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday recommended...
» read full story June 26th, 2008 - 10:26
Ground Beef Responsible for Michigan and Ohio E. coli Outbreaks

Ground Beef Responsible for Michigan and Ohio E. coli Outbreaks

The US Centers for Disease Controls has managed to find the cause of the E. coli outbreaks that...
» read full story June 25th, 2008 - 19:39
CDC: Diabetes Rates Raising With 3 Million More Cases in the US

CDC: Diabetes Rates Raising With 3 Million More Cases in the US

As the number of overweight and obese people is on the rise in the U.S., it is no surprise that...
» read full story June 25th, 2008 - 10:40
Falls Resulting in Brain Injuries May be Deadly for the Elderly

Falls Resulting in Brain Injuries May be Deadly for the Elderly

It appears that traumatic brain injuries account for half of all deaths from falls in Americans...
» read full story June 24th, 2008 - 13:53
CDC Head Warns of Complacency and Bird Flu

CDC Head Warns of Complacency and Bird Flu

Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned at a...
» read full story June 22nd, 2008 - 18:45
Tomato-Tainting Salmonella Source May Remain Mystery

Tomato-Tainting Salmonella Source May Remain Mystery

Quite a while has passed since the Salmonella outbreak linked to certain types of tomatoes has...
» read full story June 19th, 2008 - 18:52
CDC: Hospitals Fail to Offer Breast-Feeding Support

CDC: Hospitals Fail to Offer Breast-Feeding Support

Although many health experts encourage women to breast-feed their newborns, many U.S. hospitals...
» read full story June 13th, 2008 - 15:51
US Life Expectancy Sets New Record First Time in Years

US Life Expectancy Sets New Record First Time in Years

Finally, some good news is coming from the federal US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
» read full story June 12th, 2008 - 12:07
Bush Administration Pumps Money in Food and Drug Safety

Bush Administration Pumps Money in Food and Drug Safety

The Bush administration has apparently finally realized that more money are needed to ensure the...
» read full story June 10th, 2008 - 22:50
Tomatoes Pulled off Due to Salmonella Craze

Tomatoes Pulled off Due to Salmonella Craze

Three types of tomatoes have been pulled off the restaurant menus and grocery shelves as the FDA...
» read full story June 10th, 2008 - 17:14
Salmonella Fear Prompts Stores to Pull Tomatoes from Shelves

Salmonella Fear Prompts Stores to Pull Tomatoes from Shelves

Following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s warning on Tuesday that tomatoes might...
» read full story June 05th, 2008 - 10:07
Tomatoes Spread Salmonella in Nine States

Tomatoes Spread Salmonella in Nine States

Apparently tomatoes are responsible for spreading salmonella in nine U.S. states, after the link...
» read full story June 03rd, 2008 - 22:48
Low Birth Weight and Prematurity May Raise Baby’s Risk for Autism

Low Birth Weight and Prematurity May Raise Baby’s Risk for Autism

Infants born before term and underweight, especially baby-girls are twice as likely to develop...
» read full story June 03rd, 2008 - 12:20
Kids Cancer Rates Vary By Sex, Race and Area

Kids Cancer Rates Vary By Sex, Race and Area

A new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has concluded that several...
» read full story June 02nd, 2008 - 19:16
Seven Measles Cases Spotted in DuPage County

Seven Measles Cases Spotted in DuPage County

The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed seven cases of measles in DuPage County,...
» read full story June 01st, 2008 - 09:23
Tips To Keep Ticks Away

Tips To Keep Ticks Away

Tick season is one reason for health authorities to warn people that there are in fact ways to...
» read full story May 29th, 2008 - 15:50
CDC: Childhood Obesity Rates Going Steady First Time in 25 Years

CDC: Childhood Obesity Rates Going Steady First Time in 25 Years

It seems like the battle against excessive weight has won ground lately, as rates of childhood...
» read full story May 28th, 2008 - 11:26
Preterm Babies Have Double the Risk of Birth Defects

Preterm Babies Have Double the Risk of Birth Defects

Preterm babies have double the risk to be born with major birth defects than full-term infants, a...
» read full story May 22nd, 2008 - 14:34
Family History Adds to People’s Risk of Developing Shingles

Family History Adds to People’s Risk of Developing Shingles

Just days after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people aged...
» read full story May 20th, 2008 - 16:26
Minn. Health Dept. Warns: Tick-Borne Illnesses on the Rise

Minn. Health Dept. Warns: Tick-Borne Illnesses on the Rise

Minnesota health officials announced that bites from blacklegged ticks (also called deer ticks)...
» read full story May 19th, 2008 - 14:53

Gay-Rights Group Protests Against HIV-Positive Man’s Sentence

A gay-rights group in Dallas is protesting against the sentence given to a HIV-positive man for...
» read full story May 18th, 2008 - 22:24
Report: Clinic Employees Responsible For Hepatitis C Outbreak

Report: Clinic Employees Responsible For Hepatitis C Outbreak

A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday established that...
» read full story May 17th, 2008 - 09:16
Salmonella Outbreak Caused By Dog Food

Salmonella Outbreak Caused By Dog Food

Recent reports filed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave new...
» read full story May 16th, 2008 - 18:23
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World

Tomatoes Might Not be the Cause of the Salmonella Outbreak

Tomatoes Might Not be the Cause of the Salmonella Outbreak

The Food and Drugs Administration agency has recently reached the conclusion that tomatoes might...
» read full story July 05th, 2008 - 17:58
Update: Kroger Recalls Ground Beef Linked to E. coli Outbreaks

Update: Kroger Recalls Ground Beef Linked to E. coli Outbreaks

Following E. coli outbreaks in Michigan and Ohio linked to ground beef from the Kroger Food...
» read full story June 26th, 2008 - 11:13
CDC: Five More States Report Salmonella Cases

CDC: Five More States Report Salmonella Cases

Tomato-borne salmonella infections give Americans a hard time, with the U.S. Centers for Disease...
» read full story June 17th, 2008 - 14:06

16 States Struggle with Salmonella Situation

On Saturday, federal health officials announced that Salmonella food poisoning cases have been...
» read full story June 08th, 2008 - 14:04
Tomatoes-Related Salmonella Cases Rising in Texas

Tomatoes-Related Salmonella Cases Rising in Texas

The number of people infected with salmonella in Texas has risen to 35 from 21 since Tuesday, the...
» read full story June 06th, 2008 - 14:54
CDC: US Faces Biggest Measles Outbreak in Seven Years

CDC: US Faces Biggest Measles Outbreak in Seven Years

The U.S. faces the biggest measles outbreak in seven years, the federal Centers for Disease...
» read full story May 02nd, 2008 - 14:36
Flight Diverted to Fort Lauderdale after Family Get Sick

Flight Diverted to Fort Lauderdale after Family Get Sick

A flight from the Dominican Republic to Canada was diverted to Fort Lauderdale overnight...
» read full story March 05th, 2008 - 16:03
Deadly Toxin Ricin Found in LV Hotel Room; Further Test Results P

Deadly Toxin Ricin Found in LV Hotel Room; Further Test Results P

Police are investigating the presence of deadly substance ricin in a hotel room at an Extended...
» read full story February 29th, 2008 - 13:26
FEMA Trailers Had High Levels of Formaldehyde Fumes

FEMA Trailers Had High Levels of Formaldehyde Fumes

Newly released tests results show dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes in many of the trailers...
» read full story February 15th, 2008 - 22:12
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Specials

Salsa: The New Suspect In Salmonella Outbreak

Salsa: The New Suspect In Salmonella Outbreak

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
» read full story July 05th, 2008 - 10:29
Wood Components Responsible for FEMA Trailers' Toxicity

Wood Components Responsible for FEMA Trailers' Toxicity

The Centers for Disease Control released Wednesday a study, stating that plywood and particleboards...
» read full story July 03rd, 2008 - 16:18

Number of US States Struck by Salmonella Infections Reaches 16

Tomatoes-borne Salmonella bacteria appear to infect more people each day spreading all over the...
» read full story June 07th, 2008 - 22:12
CDC: Risky Health Behaviors Lowering among US Students

CDC: Risky Health Behaviors Lowering among US Students

U.S. teens appear to engage less in risky health behaviors, meaning they’re having less sex,...
» read full story June 05th, 2008 - 13:59
Tomatoes May Be Blamed for Salmonella Outbreak in 9 States

Tomatoes May Be Blamed for Salmonella Outbreak in 9 States

Health authorities are blaming tomatoes for an outbreak of salmonella in nine U.S. states after...
» read full story June 04th, 2008 - 10:43
Report: San Francisco - The Fittest City in the US

Report: San Francisco - The Fittest City in the US

A scientific analysis by the American College of Sports Medicine released at its annual meeting in...
» read full story June 01st, 2008 - 09:44
Manufacturers to Boost Number of Flu Vaccines for Next Season

Manufacturers to Boost Number of Flu Vaccines for Next Season

Despite inefficiency of the flu vaccines this year in the U.S., the five companies manufacturing...
» read full story May 12th, 2008 - 11:12
Alarming Disparities in Life Expectancy across the US

Alarming Disparities in Life Expectancy across the US

Americans’ life expectancy is stagnating or falling as obesity, high blood pressure, different...
» read full story April 22nd, 2008 - 11:38
Study Reveals Alarming Higher Rates of STDs among Teenage Girls

Study Reveals Alarming Higher Rates of STDs among Teenage Girls

Sexually transmitted diseases seem to be a big problem for most American girls, according to a new...
» read full story March 12th, 2008 - 10:27
ABC Defends "Eli Stone" Autism Episode

ABC Defends "Eli Stone" Autism Episode

Pediatricians may be protesting that the first episode of ABC’s upcoming new legal drama...
» read full story January 29th, 2008 - 12:52
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Technology

Google's Many Uses: Hack Tool

Notorious hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) has created a tool which makes use of Google to...
» read full story February 23rd, 2008 - 21:16
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Business

Topps Recalls 21.7M Pounds of Ground Beef

Topps Recalls 21.7M Pounds of Ground Beef

Topps Meat Company LLC has announced on Saturday it expanded its ground beef meat recall from...
» read full story September 30th, 2007 - 14:34
Metz Fresh Issues Voluntary Spinach Recall, No People Infected

Metz Fresh Issues Voluntary Spinach Recall, No People Infected

Metz Fresh, LLC announced it found traces of Salmonella bacteria in its spinach bags and is...
» read full story September 02nd, 2007 - 20:55
Spinach Recall Due to Salmonella Threat

Spinach Recall Due to Salmonella Threat

More than 68,000 pounds of bagged spinach are to be withdrawn from market by a Monterey County...
» read full story August 30th, 2007 - 16:38
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