Centers for Disease Control

A Decade Of Questioning Harm And The Autism-Vaccine Connection

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living


Shelley Hendrix Reynolds

For over a decade, I've relentlessly searched for answers to the connections I believe exist between my son's autism and vaccines he received.

Are We Playing Russian Roulette With Our Children?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living


Robyn O'Brien

Today, health care spending represents 17% of our GDP, but perhaps it is time that we view our children as more than just a sales channel for Big Pharma's money making medicine.

The Low Hanging Fruit of Pandemic Flu Prevention

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics


Dr. Orin Levine

While you go out to get your flu vaccines check to see if you should also get the pneumococcal vaccine, and think about how you might help give access to these vaccines to millions of children who need them.

Peaceful Revolution: Let Sick Workers Stay Home

Katie Bethell | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living


Katie Bethell

What employer would want someone with the swine flu to show up at work? As it turns out, lots of them.

The White House, Food, and Children

Neal Barnard, M.D. | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living


Neal Barnard, M.D.

If Congress is going to tackle health care, it needs to understand why so many children and adults are in such poor shape. First off, every child in every school deserves a healthful lunch every day.

CDC To Explore Environmental Links To Disease

Wall Street Journal | BETSY MCKAY | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a Web-based network to help scientists and the public research potential links between environ...

The Biggest Problem With U.S. Health Care -- And How To Fix It!

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living


Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.

We should focus on re-visioning healthcare's purpose: to create long-lived, productive and healthy men and women.

WHO: Swine Flu Could Infect 2 Billion People If Becomes Pandemic

Huffington Post | Posted 06.07.2009 | World


The media's coverage of the H1N1 swine flu epidemic has been criticized by many for being overblown, fire-fanning, scare-mongering, overly hyped, and ...

Physicians And The H1N1 Flu

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living


Dr. Jon LaPook

Many of us -- patients and physicians alike -- have been thinking about the influenza virus for about a week. Public health officials like the teams at the CDC that I visited yesterday have been thinking about it for years.

Swine Flu: CDC 'Fully Expects We Will See Deaths'

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.29.2009 | Home


ATLANTA — A U.S. health official said at least five people are hospitalized with swine flu in the United States and deaths are likely. "I fully...

The Politics of a Potential Pandemic: From Sebelius to Smithfield

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics


Josh Nelson

GOP obstruction is literally interfering with the functioning of the Federal government during a time of crisis.

SWINE FLU: CDC Begins Border Monitoring

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.28.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY — The swine flu epidemic entered a dangerous new phase Monday as the death toll climbed in Mexico and the number of suspected cases ...

Swine Flu: Science Races To Parse New Virus

Wall Street Journal | GAUTAM NAIK and BETSY MCKAY | Posted 05.27.2009 | World


Avian flu and SARS rudely awoke the world to the possibility of a new pandemic. Could a seemingly more mundane bug now put the world to the test? The...

Swine Flu: White House Says "It's Not A Time To Panic"

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.27.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — The world's governments raced to avoid both a pandemic and global hysteria Sunday as more possible swine flu cases surfaced from Ca...

Swine Flu Survival: The Science of a Single Sneeze (and Three Simple Ways to Protect Yourself)

Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.26.2009 | World


Ben Sherwood

It may sound obvious, but hand-washing with soap and water for around 20 seconds is the single best thing you can do to prevent swine flu.

Black AIDS Day

Gloria Reuben | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics


Gloria Reuben

We must turn a critical eye inward, and face the fact that HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels among the Black population of the US. The statistics are startling.

Most Obese States: The South Wins Again!

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living


ATLANTA — The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey. More than 30 percent of adults ...

Topps Meat Shuts Down After Huge Beef Recall

AP | Jeffrey Gold | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Topps Meat Co. on Friday said it was closing its business, six days after it was forced to issue the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history and 67...