Health
Panicked Hawaiians swarmed social media during nuke attack false alarm
(HealthDay)—First came confusion, shock and fear, as people struggled to process the emergency warning they'd received.
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Slow start, but it's not over yet: 5 things to know about this year's flu season
As influenza season trudges on, public health officials report fewer cases than last year's severe and deadly season.
Feb 19, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Philippines says 136 people have died in measles outbreak
The Philippine health secretary said Monday that 136 people, mostly children, have died of measles and 8,400 others have fallen ill in an outbreak blamed partly on vaccination fears.
Feb 18, 2019
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HIV & AIDS
Tracking HIV's ever-evolving genome in effort to prioritize public health resources
Every county in the United States tracks HIV cases, sequencing the virus' genome to see if it is resistant to current medications and looking for trends. More recently, local health departments and the Centers for Disease ...
Feb 11, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Do we have an epidemic? Enhancing disease surveillance using a health information exchange
How do public health officials know if there is a disease outbreak and where that outbreak has occurred?
Feb 11, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
OxyContin reformulation to curb opioid abuse led to hepatitis C surge, study finds
Reformulation of the pain medicine OxyContin in 2010 to make it more difficult to abuse directly led to a large rise in hepatitis C infections as drug abusers switched from the prescription medication to injectable heroin, ...
Feb 04, 2019
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Dentistry
Making the case for fluoridated water
A recent University of Alaska study that found an increase in childhood dental decay in two cities that halted the use of fluoridated water demonstrates why this public health measure is needed, says Dean Cecile A. Feldman ...
Jan 31, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Patients in Northwest measles outbreak traveled to Hawaii
A measles outbreak in the Pacific Northwest became more worrisome Wednesday with word that people infected with the extremely contagious viral illness traveled to Hawaii and central Oregon after being exposed.
Jan 31, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Officials urge vaccinations amid Northwest measles outbreak (Update)
Public health officials scrambling to contain a measles outbreak in the U.S. Northwest warned people to vaccinate their children Monday and worried that it could take months to contain the highly contagious viral illness ...
Jan 28, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Measles outbreak grows in northwest US, 30 cases reported
The number of confirmed measles cases near Portland grew from 25 to 30 on Friday, with nine additional cases suspected—an outbreak boosted by lower-than-normal vaccination rates in what's been identified as an anti-vaccination ...
Jan 25, 2019
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