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Seeing through the Charm -- Is Your New Love an Abuser?

Ludy Green, Ph.D | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Emotional Abuse, Center for Disease Control, Relationship Abuse, Unhealthy Relationships, Is Your Partner an Abuser?, Relationship Advice, Domestic Abuse, Physical Abuse, Women News

According to the Center for Disease Control, teen dating violence happens more than you may think. Anyone, regardless of education, race, and age, is susceptible to abuse.

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Imported Food Now Sickening More People, CDC Says

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Video, Imported Food Safety, Food Poisoning, Center for Disease Control, Cdc Imported Food, Cdc Food Safety, Food Safety, Outbreak of Food Poisoning, Imported Food, Food Poisoning Outbreaks, Food News

Food safety seemed like a particularly grim topic last year. Reports of devastating illnesses -- and even deaths -- from food-borne pathogens seem to ...

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Day 10: Men, Women and Kids -- Know Your 5 Heart Health Numbers

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Center for Disease Control, High Blood Pressure, Go Red, Health, Diabetes, American Heart Month, Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health, Diet, Nhlbi, American Heart American Heart Association, Personal Health, Heart Month, Video, Healthy Living News

Here we are at Day 10 of 29 days of American Heart Month blogs. I would be remiss in not reviewing what you want to know about your heart health numbers.

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Day Nine: Women Most at Risk for Heart Disease Least Aware of Threat

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: American Heart Association, Center for Disease Control, Yale Heart Study, Million-Hearts, Heart Attack, Journal of Women's Health, Yale University, Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health, Suzanne Haynes PhD, Personal Health, Heart Health, Heart Month, American Heart Month, Video, Healthy Living News

As a woman, I'd like to admit that a good deal of the time I know exactly what somebody else should do and insist they do it. I think it's called "do what I say, not what I do." To be fair, we believed for years that only men had heart attacks and women were safe.

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Village Reporters

Cooper Munroe | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Women's Health, Village Reporters, Center for Disease Control, Global Motherhood, Kenya, ONE Moms, ONE Campaign, #ONEmoms, Video, Impact News

This past summer 10 American moms, including me, went with the ONE Campaign to Kenya to learn firsthand about U.S.-funded programs in Africa benefitting mothers and children.

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D.C. Schools Students Reveal High Rates Of Sex, Fear And Suicide Attempts

Posted 11.28.2011

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson had some revealing statistics to share with city council members Tuesday -- almost 10 percent of 8th gra...

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Why Education "Reform" Could Bankrupt Us

John Thompson | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: School Reform, Diane Rehm, Early Education, Center for Disease Control, Obesity, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Education News

America can no longer afford to separate education, health, and social services into separate silos. And we risk bankruptcy if our schools continue to focus on a narrow portion of our children's brains.

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7,000 Pounds Of Chicken Nuggets Recalled

AP | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Chicken, Pilgrim's Pride, Center for Disease Control, Listeriosis, Cdc, Denver News, Chicken Recall, Listeria Monocytogenes, Chicken Contamination, Listeria, Greeley News, Denver Colorado, Greeley Colorado, Chicken Nuggets, Pilgrim's Pride Brand Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Nuggets, Denver News

GREELEY, Colo. — A voluntary recall of thousands of pounds of ready-to-eat chicken was expanded over concerns that the meat could be contaminate...

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On the Road with the Fix Gun Checks Tour

Tristine Skyler | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Gun Laws, Center for Disease Control, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Tuscon Shooting, Firearms, Fixed Gun Checks Tour, Al Qaeda, Politics News

The digital, constantly updating number on a mobile billboard truck reads 4,109. That is 4,109 people murdered in preventable, illegal gun deaths since the Tucson shooting this past January.

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CDC's 'Zombie Apocalypse' Advice An Internet Hit

AP | By MIKE STOBBE | Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Center for Disease Control, Apocalypse, Cdc, Zombie Apocalypse, Zombie Apocalypse Advice, Apocalypse Advice, Cdc Zombie Apocalypse, Cdc Zombie, Cdc Zombies, Technology News

ATLANTA -- "Zombie apocalypse." That blog posting headline is all it took for a behind-the-scenes public health doctor to set off an Internet frenzy o...

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Watch: CDC Offers Zombie Apocalypse Advice

Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Disease Control, Apocalypse, Cdc, Zombies, Apocalypse Advice, Video, Home News

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Food: We Can't Live With It, but We Can Live Without It

Mark Steinberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Nehi, Condiments, Fat, Mother's Cooking, Obesity, Diet, Pate, Drumstick, Center for Disease Control, Aunts, Recipes, Satire, Sisters, Chicago, Carrots, McDonald's, Bovine, Health Care, Hot Dog, Comedy, Scrambled Eggs, Food Coloring, Taxes, Humor, Revenue, Restaurants, Cooking, Carp, Bachmann, Eggs, Healthy Living News

The problem with Marjorie's scrambled eggs was that they didn't smile like my mom's eggs. They seemed pale, like they'd had a bad night out. They looked like their estimated taxes were due.

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$8 Million Misplaced? CDC Loses Track Of Millions In Equipment And Property

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC News, Center for Disease Control, Cdc, Personal Health, CDC Report, Cdc Audit, Home News

ATLANTA — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost or misplaced more than $8 million in property in 2007, losing track of items incl...

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Let Fat People Be Fat People

Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fat, Obesity Crisis, Comedy and Humor, American Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Healthcare, Mona Lisa, Center for Disease Control, CDC Obesity, Mona Lisa Smile, Cdc, Fatties, Viro Franco, Comedy News

Obesity is getting a bad rap. One propaganda source commonly cited by the "Fatzis" is a CDC study that concludes that being fat is worse for you tha...

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Ken Buck: No Science Foundation, No Disease Center

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Science Foundation, Tea Party, Center for Disease Control, Michael Bennet US Senate, 2010 Elections, Buckpedaling, Ken Buck, Aaron Harber, Elections 2010, Denver News

If Ken Buck and supporters won't tell the truth about Ken Buck's extremist ways, who will?

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First, Do No Harm

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Medical Association House of Delegates, American Medical News, BJC Healthcare, Tufts University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Vaccine, American Medical Association, Michelle Perez, Infectious Disease Society of America, Influenza, Center for Disease Control, World News

This blog entry is authored by Michelle Perez, one of Orin Levine's graduate students at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This pos...

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China and US Open Disease Study Center In Shanghai

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cdc, Center for Disease Control, Disease Study Center, Disease, Shanghai Disease Center, Study Disease, Disease Study, China Disease Center, Health, Healthy Living News

SHANGHAI — American and Shanghai health authorities opened an epidemiology center in the Chinese city Tuesday to train experts in sleuthing out ...

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Hepatitis Gone Viral: 100 Times More Infectious Than HIV, Over 40 Americans Dying Daily

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Rep Mike Honda, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Center for Disease Control, Hepatitis, Healthy Living News

Few realize how highly infectious viral hepatitis is. Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than HIV. Few realize that, left untreated, it can cause liver disease, liver cancer, and premature death decades after infection.

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Illinois' High STD Rate: Health Officials Encourage STD Testing

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: STD Rates, Illinois Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Center for Disease Control, Illinois Department of Public Health, Chlamydia, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Illinois STDs, Stds, Gonorrhea, Chicago News

It's National STD Awareness Month--and Illinois residents should think about getting tested. According to the the Illinois Department of Public Heal...

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Study Reveals That Women In Western States Breastfeed More Than Eastern States

hosted.ap.org | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Disease Control, Breastfeeding, Baby Formula, East Coast, Western States, Breastfeeding in Public, Colorado, Cdc, Denver, Hispanic, Cultural Differences, Denver News

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Testing Overseas May Explain Big Drop In TB Cases

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Disease, Health, Cdc, Tb, TB Testing, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control, Wellness, Global Health Initiative, Healthy Living News

ATLANTA — An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before t...

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Stamp Out Smoking: Take Action Today

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smoking, Cigarettes, Great American Smokeout, Center for Disease Control, Tobacco Prevention, Tobacco, Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, Tobacco Health, Tobacco Regulation, Politics News

There's a killer at large in our communities linked to 1 out of 5 deaths. The killer is tobacco, the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.

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Forget a "Fat Tax." Tax the Fat.

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gyms, Jolt Cola, Cdc, Fat, Cola, Obesity, Fat People, Fat Tax, Macdonalds, Center for Disease Control, Medical Costs, Health Care Reform, New York Times, Doritos, Health Care, Health Statistics, Politics News

With all the talk -- and screaming and gun-toting -- that's going on around the health care reform debate, maybe the answer is orbiting our ever-expanding guts.

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Thomas Frieden: CDC Director Picked By Obama

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Frieden, Center for Disease Control, Thomas Frieden Center for Disease Control, Frieden Cdc, Thomas Frieden Cdc, Nyc Health Commissioner, Politics News

NEW YORK — For seven years, Dr. Thomas Frieden has been the nagging conscience of the nation's biggest city, the man who made sure New Yorkers c...

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Of Epidemics And "Epidemics"

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obseity Epidemic, Center for Disease Control, Swine Flu Symptoms, Swine Flu Pandemic, Obesity Epidemic, Swine Flu, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Mexico Swine Flu, Flu, Epidemic, Swine Flu Mexico, Obesity Healthcare, Obama Health Care, Health, Obesity Health Care, Health Care, Stuart Whatley, Politics News

The current swine flu epidemic, with all of its gravitas, actually almost makes light of another "epidemic" that has afflicted millions in the U.S. for years and which shows no sign of subsiding: childhood obesity.

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