Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC: Congenital syphilis cases have more than doubled since 2013

Maria Biery · September 25, 2018 8:02 pm

FILE - This Oct. 17, 2012 file photo shows a flu shot administered in Jackson, Miss. More children than ever got vaccinated against the flu last year, and health officials are urging families to do even better this time around. A severe flu strain swept the country last winter, sparking a scramble for last-minute vaccinations. There's no way to predict if this year will be as bad. But protection requires a yearly vaccine, either a shot or nasal spray. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it's time for people to start getting immunized. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

House reauthorizes pandemic control program, without Trump’s requested change

Kimberly Leonard · September 25, 2018 7:46 pm

In this photo taken Sunday, Sept 9, 2018, health workers walk with a boy suspected of having the Ebola virus at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. The current Ebola outbreak in northeastern Congo has become a testing ground with one aid group for the first time treating confirmed Ebola victims in individual biosecure units used in emergencies involving highly infectious diseases.

Congo identifies Ebola case at border of Uganda

Robert King · September 21, 2018 5:46 pm

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb listens during an interview with the Associated Press in New York, March 5, 2018.

FDA proposes hospital subscriptions to medicines to fight deadly drug-resistant bacteria

Kimberly Leonard · September 14, 2018 3:32 pm

US insurance coverage plateaus in first months of 2018

Robert King · August 29, 2018 3:56 pm

"Our ability to withstand these losses is dependent on our achieving anticipated synergies in the Humana acquisition," Aetna's Mark Bertolini wrote. (AP Photo)

US STD rates hit record high

Katelyn Caralle · August 29, 2018 12:08 am

Tom Frieden, the former director for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was arrested on Friday on charges of sexual abuse and harassment.

Former CDC Director Tom Frieden arrested, accused of sex abuse: Report

Robert King · August 24, 2018 4:02 pm

CDC: More babies are breastfed, but not for long enough

Kimberly Leonard · August 20, 2018 5:01 pm

Fact Check: Did the CDC Admit to Giving a ‘Cancer Virus via the Polio Shot’?

Holmes Lybrand · August 20, 2018 9:02 am

Nurse Brian Toia holds tabs of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, as he prepares to administer the drug.

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To fight the opioid crisis, the US needs to look at what works

Erin Dunne · August 16, 2018 5:02 pm

This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. Abuse of painkillers, heroin, fentanyl and other opioids across the country has resulted in tens of thousands of children being taken from their homes and placed in the foster care system.

Drugs killed almost 72,000 people last year, a record

Kimberly Leonard · August 15, 2018 10:02 pm

President Trump signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House, July 19, 2018, in Washington.

Trump signs law giving suicide lifeline a makeover

Kimberly Leonard · August 14, 2018 8:35 pm