Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

E. coli outbreak linked to tainted beef spreads to 10 states

John Gage · April 24, 2019 4:35 pm

Ground beef sickens people in 6 states: CDC

Diana Stancy Correll · April 13, 2019 12:10 am

In this Wednesday, March 6, 2019 photo volunteer Yekaterina Gilchyonok holds a hedgehog in the Veles rehabilitation shelter for wild animals in Rappolovo village outside St. Petersburg, Russia. Some 200 wild animals are receiving care at the Veles Center, an out-of-the-way operation regarded as Russia's premier facility for rehabilitating creatures that were abandoned or fell victim to human callousness.

Stop snuggling with hedgehogs, CDC warns amid salmonella outbreak

Cassidy Morrison · April 1, 2019 4:09 pm

Pharmacist Steve Protzel poses for photos holding a bottle of OxyContin at Daniel's Pharmacy in San Francisco.

Big Pharma laments opioid epidemic but says it’s not to blame

James Langford · March 28, 2019 6:15 pm

Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN, Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019.

CDC confirms 314 cases of measles so far in 2019

Daniel Jativa · March 26, 2019 10:16 pm

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter is pictured during an interview.

Oklahoma keeps up opioid fight against Big Pharma after $270 million Purdue deal

James Langford · March 26, 2019 7:32 pm

Pediatricians, heart health advocates endorse soda taxes for the first time

Kimberly Leonard · March 25, 2019 4:01 am

A doctor holds Truvada pills at her office in San Francisco. The pill has been shown to reduce the risk of getting HIV from sex by more than 90 percent if taken daily.

Most HIV infections spread by people who aren’t diagnosed or aren’t getting treatment

Kimberly Leonard · March 18, 2019 6:02 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Vaccination controversy puts politicians on the spot

Cassidy Morrison · March 1, 2019 5:32 am

Progress in HIV prevention has plateaued, government reports

Cassidy Morrison · February 27, 2019 10:55 pm

This photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Phoenix Division shows some of the 30,000 fentanyl pills the agency seized in one of its bigger busts, in Tempe, Ariz., in August, 2017.

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Wake up: Fentanyl deaths are exploding and no one is paying attention

Ernest Istook · February 21, 2019 9:14 pm

President Donald Trump arrives to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington's Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, watches.

Trump to ask for ‘substantial new resources’ to fight HIV

Kimberly Leonard · February 6, 2019 2:24 pm