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Ewwww -- poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns
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...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Science and Technology, Swimming, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Calicivirus
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Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD
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...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Gonorrhea , Behavioral Conditions, Health Insurance Cost, Vaccines
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Many with hepatitis C don't get needed follow-up tests, CDC says
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...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medical Procedures and Tests, Liver Cancer, Hepatitis
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Urologists say most men may skip PSA test for prostate cancer
A man with no risk factors for prostate cancer can go his whole life without ever taking a PSA test, according to the American Urological Assn. In a new clinical guideline unveiled Friday, the urologists said that only men between the ages of 55 and...
Tags: Death, Diseases and Illnesses, Palliative Care, Prostate Cancer, Biopsy
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Addicted to added sugar? It's 13% of calories consumed by Americans
Sugar. Honey. Maple syrup. Molasses. High fructose corn syrup. All of these are “added sugars,” and you are probably eating -- and drinking – too much of them. So says the latest report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Tags: Science and Technology, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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CDC probing valley fever outbreaks in two California prisons
SACRAMENTO — The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stepped in to investigate outbreaks of valley fever in two California prisons where more than three dozen inmates have died after contracting the fungal disease. Staff from...Tags: Jerry Brown, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coccidioidomycosis , Prisons
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Suicide rates up among U.S adults ages 35 to 64, CDC reports
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...
Tags: Firearms, Science and Technology, Behavioral Conditions, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Suicide
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Hilary Koprowski dies at 96; developed oral vaccine for polio
Hilary Koprowski, a Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccine for polio, has died. He was 96. Koprowski died of pneumonia April 11 at his Philadelphia home, said his son, Dr. Christopher Koprowski, a radiation oncologist....
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Science and Technology, Rubella, Biotechnology Industry
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Dozens line up for meningitis vaccine in West Hollywood
Dozens of men lined up Monday morning at an AIDS Healthcare Foundation pharmacy in West Hollywood to get a free meningitis vaccine, days after a local man died from the disease. Allen Smith, a 21-year-old dance student, said he had a weak immune...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, AIDS, Meningitis, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine
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Imported cucumbers sicken 73 people in 18 states with salmonella
More than 70 people in 18 states have fallen ill because of a salmonella outbreak linked to imported Mexican cucumbers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The agency said 14 people have been hospitalized, and it is working...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Mexico, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Herbalife Limited
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Government shuts down HIV/AIDS vaccine trial
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.In another major setback for efforts to develop a vaccine to boost immunity to the human immunodeficiency virus, known as HIV, a key clinical trial was ordered shut down this week after an independent panel of safety experts found that participants...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Placebo, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine, Pharmaceuticals
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Who should own DNA? All of us
Most court cases involving patent law are corporate battles, with one company suing another for infringing on its intellectual property rights and, therefore, profits. Big companies fighting over big money can seem painfully irrelevant, especially when so...
Tags: Science and Technology, Breast Cancer, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine, Trials
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