Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Peter Pan maker to pay $11.2 million over salmonella poisoning

Robert King · May 20, 2015 6:47 pm

You don't have to be on a cruise to get the deadly norovirus, with a public health agency warning you can easily get the stomach bug from a swim at your local pool. (iStock)

CDC warns of contracting norovirus from swimming

Robert King · May 15, 2015 4:57 pm

Often called "flesh-eating bacteria," vibrio, which live in raw oysters or undercooked shellfish, can cause skin lesions, damage organs and even death. (AP)

E. coli infections down, ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria up

Paige Winfield Cunningham · May 14, 2015 9:31 pm

Warning: Feds urge cops to hunt for seat-belt scofflaws at night

Paul Bedard · May 14, 2015 5:58 pm

Arnold Heart, 79, sits at the table during the evening meal as Margaret Sommerville, background, talks at the Daughters of Sarah nursing home in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo)Â

CDC report finds Americans living longer

Robert King · May 8, 2015 3:16 pm

Heroin and opioid abuse triggering spike in Hep C cases

Robert King · May 7, 2015 8:44 pm

More than 17 million women in their 40s could be forced to pay for a vital breast cancer test, according to a new analysis. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Adults ignoring vital cancer screenings: CDC

Robert King · May 7, 2015 7:03 pm

Obamacare program may be linked to ER opioid prescriptions

Obamacare program may be linked to ER opioid prescriptions

Robert King · May 7, 2015 9:00 am

CDC: Hispanics to reach 23% of U.S. population by 2035, faster than expected

CDC: Hispanics to reach 23% of U.S. population by 2035, faster than expected

Paul Bedard · May 5, 2015 6:39 pm

Spanish language interpreter Victoria Cochran, left, interprets between Arkansas Children's Hospital nurse Jon Emmerling, right, and Claudia Lozano, center, as she holds her eight-month-old son Arturo Cerda, a patient at the hospital, in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, Dec. 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Study: Hispanics twice as likely to die from diabetes compared to whites

Robert King · May 5, 2015 5:07 pm

A separate instance of "possible sexual transmission of Ebola has been reported, although the accompanying evidence was inconclusive," the CDC said in a report Friday. (AP Photo)Â

CDC: Woman may have gotten Ebola after sex with survivor

Robert King · May 1, 2015 3:44 pm

A kit of Naloxone, a heroin antidote that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, is displayed at a press conference about a new community prevention program for heroin overdoses in which New York police officers will carry kits of Naloxone, on May 27, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

CDC wants more use of drug that reverses overdoses

Robert King · April 24, 2015 4:35 pm