Public health researchers seeking to determine an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), or stroke have previously relied on national US data, such as that provided by ...
Nov 10, 2014
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Health officials say the nasal spray version of the flu vaccine did not protect young children against swine flu last winter and might not work again this year.
Nov 6, 2014
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Commonly prescribed, older drugs for arthritis and pain may increase the risk of death from stroke, according to a study published in the November 5, 2014, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy ...
Nov 5, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Most American children entering kindergarten are getting their required vaccinations, according to research published in the Oct. 17 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and ...
Oct 17, 2014
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A 21-month-old girl is the first person in Michigan to die from the virus that has caused severe respiratory illness across the U.S., state health officials said Saturday.
Oct 11, 2014
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Deaths from heroin overdose doubled in just two years in much of the United States, a new government study says.
Oct 2, 2014
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Ongoing research at Iowa State University is investigating the connection between initial seizures and the onset of epilepsy later in life.
Oct 1, 2014
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The United States has diagnosed its first case of the deadly Ebola virus in a man who became infected in Liberia and traveled to Texas, US health officials said Tuesday.
Sep 30, 2014
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The Ebola epidemic could claim hundreds of thousands of lives and infect more than 1.4 million people by the end of January, according to a statistical forecast released this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Sep 26, 2014
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Following a doubling of the incidence and prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. from 1990-2008, new data suggest a plateauing of the rate between 2008 and 2012 for adults, however the incidence continued to increase in Hispanic ...
Sep 23, 2014
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