News tagged with public health officials
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Drug-overdose antidote is put in addicts' hands
(AP) -- Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin.
Addiction
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Autism research may be about to bear fruit
(AP) -- More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade researching autism. In some ways, the search for its causes looks like a long-running fishing expedition, with a focus on everything from genetics ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Prevalence of improper condom use a public health issue worldwide: researchers
Problems with the correct use of the male condom, such as not wearing a condom throughout sex or putting it on upside down, are common in the U.S. and have become a major concern of public health officials. New research shows ...
HIV & AIDS
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Latest illnesses point to raw milk's popularity
(AP) -- An outbreak of bacterial infections on the East Coast illustrates the popularity of raw, unpasteurized milk despite strong warnings from public health officials about the potential danger.
Health
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Study identifies why some young people choose to get tested for STDs and others don't
(Medical Xpress) -- A recent study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland identified the reasons why college-age individuals would be tested for sexually transmitted diseases. ...
Health
Jan 27, 2012 |
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No whooping cough deaths in California last year
No Californian died from whooping cough in 2011, the first year since 1991 that there have been no deaths in the state from the highly infectious illness.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Many high-risk Americans don't get hepatitis B vaccine
Although there is an effective vaccine for hepatitis B and public health officials have a strong sense of who is at highest risk for the infectious liver disease, tens of thousands of people in the United ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Industrial salt sold as food salt in Iceland for 13 years
Industrial salt not intended for human consumption has been sold in Iceland as food salt for 13 years by mistake, Icelandic officials said Tuesday.
Health
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Indian experts probing 'untreatable' TB cases
The Indian government on Tuesday dispatched a team of medical experts to the financial capital, Mumbai, to assess reports of a handful of cases of apparently untreatable tuberculosis.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Legionnaires' disease outbreak linked to hospital's decorative fountain
A 2010 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Wisconsin has been linked to a decorative fountain in a hospital lobby, according to a study published in the February issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the jo ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Two cities, one vast gap in child obesity
Doris Chang limits her three sons' intake of sweets and doesn't feed them any processed or frozen food. At their Manhattan Beach, Calif., home, she monitors the boys' time in front of the television and keeps them busy with ...
Health
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Swine flu strain that is resistant to Tamiflu is spreading more easily
The flu season is still young in the United States and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, but Australia wrapped up its flu season months ago, and public health officials there have some disturbing news to report: The version ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 29, 2011 |
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Controversial research on bird flu
In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from victim to victim.
Medical research
Dec 28, 2011 |
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No more free infant formula at RI hospitals
(AP) -- New mothers in Rhode Island will no longer leave the hospital with a free goody bag of infant formula.
Health
Nov 29, 2011 |
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More kids skip school shots in 8 states
More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. In eight states now, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren't getting all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press ...
Health
Nov 28, 2011 |
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