Twice the Risk of Foodborne Outbreaks at Restaurants Versus Homes
Outbreak data show that Americans are twice as likely to get food poisoning from food prepared at a restaurant than food prepared at home, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest....
View ArticleMuddy Obstacle Courses Can Cause Illness
It turns out the toughest obstacle of a Tough Mudder-style race might not be dodging live electrical wires, hoisting logs or leaping over a wall of flames. It might be the nasty stomach bug that can...
View ArticleCDC Rationale for West Virginia Tainted Water Explained
After a chemical spilled into the Elk River and tainted the water supply of 300,000 West Virginians, health officials’ biggest concern was determining at what levels the water would again be safe to...
View ArticleCDC Unveils Mobile App to Help Identify Concussion Symptoms
The Centers for Disease Control released The Heads Up app to help parents, coaches and others learn how to spot the warning signs of a concussion or other serious brain injury. The app provides...
View ArticleOpioid Prescriptions Vary by Location: CDC
Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prescriptions were distributed unevenly throughout the...
View ArticleSafety Problems an Issue at Federal Public Health Labs
The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged Wednesday that systemic safety problems have for years plagued federal public health laboratories that handle dangerous...
View ArticleEighty People Being Monitored for Ebola Symptoms in Dallas
More than 80 people in Dallas are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola after coming into contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan or others who Duncan had met, health officials said. The people have...
View ArticleHazmat Suits Used for Ebola in Short Supply for Firefighters
Fire departments are struggling to get the safety suits needed to protect emergency crews responding to patients who may have Ebola, their union said in a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama seeking...
View ArticleFlorida Orders 21-Day Monitoring for Ebola
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is ordering twice daily monitoring for anyone returning from places the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates as affected by Ebola. Scott signed the...
View ArticleHospitals Improvise Ebola Defenses
What does it take to Ebola-proof a hospital? Over the past few months, U.S. medical centers have spent millions of dollars putting together a plan to treat patients with the scary, but extremely rare...
View ArticlePainkiller Deaths Increased in New York State Between 2003 and 2012
Overdose deaths involving prescription opioid painkillers in New York State increased from 2003 through 2012, according to a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released by CDC this month. Vital...
View ArticleCarbon Monoxide Poisoning an Odorless Killer
A quadruple tragedy that claimed the lives of four area young people elicited shock and sympathy from local officials, as well as calls for increased vigilance to prevent deadly carbon monoxide...
View ArticleCycling Deaths Among Kids Declined 92% in Last 40 Years
The rate of cycling deaths among American children under the age of 15 has fallen 92 percent since 1975. That doesn’t mean the roads are safer—it may just mean kids are riding bikes less. The Centers...
View ArticleAdjustments in Already Available Auto Technology Could Reduce Frequency of...
New research suggests a notable decline in bicyclist deaths in the last several decades, however, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on bike auto collision-related deaths...
View ArticleInjuries Cost the U.S. $671 Billion in 2013
The total estimated lifetime medical and work loss costs associated with fatal and non-fatal injuries in the United States was $671 billion in 2013, according to research released by the Centers for...
View ArticleStudy of States With Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Highlights...
Despite prescription drug monitoring programs enacted in several states, opioids continue to be prescribed twice as much in some states versus other states, according to a new report by the Centers for...
View ArticleHolidays Bring Big Risks of Buzzed, Drunk Driving
The holiday season is in full gear and so too are state and federal highway safety programs focused on reducing the incidence of drunken driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
View ArticleReport Says FDA Fails in Ensuring Safety of Medical Devices
America’s system for ensuring that medical devices are safe failed at every turn when dirty endoscopes began spreading deadly superbugs, according to a Senate investigation released today. The report,...
View ArticleCDC Chipotle Probe Ends Without Source Being Found
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has concluded its investigation into two E. coli outbreaks that sickened dozens of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. customers and thrust the chain into a...
View ArticleCDC Says Lumber Liquidators Flooring Has Higher Cancer Risk
Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. flooring, tested for formaldehyde, was found to have a three times higher risk of causing cancer than previously stated, U.S. regulators said in reversing their own...
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