U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

2013-05-18 22:06:00

WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will...

Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting

2013-05-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...

Fluoridated water? Not all Portlanders will drink to that

2013-05-18 22:41:00

PORTLAND, Ore. — Proponents of fluoridating Portland's water supply had no trouble getting the local Urban League on board. Here in the biggest city in the country that still doesn't treat its water to prevent tooth decay, studies show that low-...

Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD

2013-05-15 00:00:00

If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...

Ewwww -- poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns

2013-05-16 14:07:00

Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have� pooped in the pool. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked with state and local public...

Mental illness in youth: a common struggle

2013-05-17 13:55:00

Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...

Could giving newborns formula help with breast-feeding?

2013-05-13 05:00:00

One of the first warnings new mothers hear is that offering babies formula soon after birth can lead to problems with breast-feeding.� Sating infants' hunger with formula can prevent them from nursing vigorously, interfering with milk production;...

Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up, says study

2013-05-07 12:46:00

Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more...

Many with hepatitis C don't get needed follow-up tests, CDC says

2013-05-08 10:35:00

Half of all patients who have tested positive for hepatitis C have not had follow-up testing to see if they are still infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means many people are living with the disease and not...

Suicide rates up among U.S adults ages 35 to 64, CDC reports

2013-05-02 14:40:00

Suicide rates among Americans 35 to 64 years old rose 28% from 1999 to 2010, from 13.7 per 100,000 people to 17.6 per 100,000 people, the CDC reported Thursday.� The greatest increases occurred in people 50 to 54 years old (up 48%) and among people 55...

Planning a home birth? Here's some advice from pediatricians

2013-04-29 13:39:00

The nation’s pediatricians have some advice for expectant parents who are considering giving birth to their child at home: Don’t. Home birth is not very common in the United States – fewer than 1% of babies are born outside of a...

Officials study valley fever outbreak at solar power projects

2013-04-30 20:37:00

Epidemiologists are investigating an outbreak of valley fever that has sickened 28 workers at two large solar power construction sites in San Luis Obispo County. Staff from the California Department of Public Health, and investigators from the...

A CDC study points to an unpleasant reality: Many swimming pools have a problem with fecal contamination. The solution: Better pool maintenance, and better efforts at cleansing by swimmers.

2013-05-16 13:15:38

Half of people who have tested positive for hepatitis C don't know if they are still infected, which means many of them aren't getting important medical treatment, the CDC says.

2013-05-08 10:06:48

Trends in age-adjusted suicide rates among men aged 35 to 64 years. The CDC reported Thursday that rates among middle-aged Americans are up 28% since 1999.

2013-05-02 12:49:13