Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Doctors are being advised to give children a supplemental dose of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as they come in to their offices. PCV13 is a vaccine that protects from pneumococcal disease, which is caused by the bacterium pneumococcus; it is a leading cause of potentially life-threatening illness in children ...
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
A central Ohio county is preparing for a zombie outbreak on Halloween, hoping to train responders for more likely emergencies through an exercise inspired by a tongue-in-cheek blog posting from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that urged people to be prepared for a "zombie apocalypse."
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
In support of World Stroke Day on October 29, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call on Americans to take immediate action to reduce their risk for stroke. Every 6 seconds someone in the world dies from stroke, making it also one of the leading causes of death ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
Investigators from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Missouri's health department were in St. Louis on Friday trying to determine the cause of an E. coli outbreak that sickened nearly two dozen people in the city and four surrounding counties.
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
A simple blood test could someday quantify a smoker's lung toxicity and danger of heart disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. smoke, and smoking-related medical expenses and loss of productivity exceeds $167 billion annually, according to the Centers for ...
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