Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Few vaccination exemptions in most states

Few vaccination exemptions in most states

Robert King · August 27, 2015 6:00 pm

Contact lens wearers must wash hands before touching lenses and take out contacts before showering, sleeping or swimming. (Wikimedia Commons)

Nearly all contact lens wearers perform risky behaviors: CDC

Robert King · August 20, 2015 5:00 pm

Since 1975, the annual rates of all bicyclists dying by getting struck by a car decreased by 44 percent. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Bicycle mortality rate for children drops

Robert King · August 13, 2015 5:12 pm

Remember Ebola?

Jonathan V. Last · August 13, 2015 2:03 pm

The Nanny State does not know better

Peter Roff · August 13, 2015 4:01 am

Most middle and high schools start around 8 a.m. or earlier, although scientists say that should be 8:30. (iStock photo)

CDC: Kids go to school too early

Robert King · August 6, 2015 5:00 pm

The next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs. Instead of trying to directly kill germs, the new goal is to disable bacteria's ability to sicken in the first place. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

Teamwork needed to save 37,000 lives from superbugs

Robert King · August 4, 2015 7:30 pm

From a survey of 1,000 Americans, Gallup found that 64 percent drink at least one cup of coffee a day. That number has barely budged from 63 percent in 1999. (AP Photo)Â

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Gallup: Americans are slowly kicking unhealthy habits

Emily Leayman · July 31, 2015 12:00 pm

University of Miami pediatrician Judith L. Schaechter, M.D. (L) gives an HPV vaccination to a 13-year-old girl in her office at the Miller School of Medicine on September 21, 2011 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

CDC says teens still not getting HPV vaccine

Robert King · July 30, 2015 5:26 pm

A package of Plan B contraceptive, also known as the morning after pill. (Getty Images)

Use of morning-after pill soars among teens

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 22, 2015 4:01 am

Most of the time doctors can't pinpoint the exact cause of the pneumonia, according to the CDC. (Getty Images)

Pneumonia is deadly, but its cause is often unknown

Robert King · July 15, 2015 4:02 pm

Sydney Owen, 2 carries one of the chickens as he helps to round them up at Ravenseat, the farm of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen on April 15, 2014 near Kirkby Stephen, England. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Reminder from feds: Don’t cuddle or kiss chickens

Barbara Boland · July 10, 2015 8:05 pm