Search for: "U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"
Results 6421 - 6440
of 7,373
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
25 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
But when FDA Commissioner and top officials from "outbreak control" at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call a press conference without advance warning late in the afternoon, it's also just a little scary.Early last March, that's exactly what happened. [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
An estimated 89 people from 15 states and the District of Columbia have been infected with Salmonella in an outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Thursday.This was CDC's first public acknowledgment of its involvement in the outbreak investigation, which is related to 50 Salmonella illnesses already reported in Illinois and associated there with Jimmy John's sandwich outlets. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 4:16 pm
Another example: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its first hand-washing guidelines in 1975. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 12:30 pm
At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
"Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new estimate on the annual public health burden of contaminated food: 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths.Debate on the floor of the House Tuesday focused largely on disagreements over the process and a controversial provision, added by Sen. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 11:26 am
At 10:00 PM last May 30th, on the same day New Mexico asked for help from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 3:09 pm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the issue. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 1:00 pm
Howard Koh, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Dr. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 12:30 pm
However, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report a nationwide drop in serious health care MRSA infections. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Six residents of Missouri and Illinois came down with a rare parasitic disease -- paragonimiasis - caused by Paragonimus trematodes, or lung flukes, between September 2009 and September 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.In North America, infection by lung flukes isn't all that unusual in dogs, cats or wild carnivores, but it is rarely seen in humans, who can get it from eating raw or undercooked crayfish or freshwater crabs… [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
"The report notes that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta requires state public health labs to be able to use pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) protocols to rapidly identify specific pathogens. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Wednesday's release of the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates on foodborne illness in the U.S., which are significantly lower than the oft-cited decade-old estimates, left many in the food policy community wondering about the timing of the report.Just two weeks ago, lawmakers were citing the now-obsolete 1999 estimates, as the House and Senate debated the pending food safety bill, which would be the most sweeping update to food… [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 6:50 am
[S]tudies rarely go on long enough to track the decades-long course of disease and ultimately death. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
In this editorial, published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal (January 2011), the journal's associate editor Dr. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Department of Agriculture budgets, reintroduced her bill in response to the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention foodborne illness statistics report, which estimates that each year 48 million people--one in six Americans--are sickened, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from food poisoning. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new, lower estimate of the overall public health burden of foodborne illness in the United States. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 12:00 pm
At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Public health advocates have cited them repeatedly while trying to push new food safety legislation through the House and Senate.Critics claim the numbers, cobbled together in 1999 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are so much, well, diarrhea. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 10:00 am
Frieden Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 3:44 am
Opened and unopened packages of Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda Cheese sold and sampled at Costco stores have tested positive for the outbreak strain of E. coli 0157:H7 -- a rare strain that has not been seen before by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [read post]
