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CDC
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11 chosen as 2010-11 AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows
The Association of Health Care Journalists has announced the selection of the third class of AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows. The…
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HHS, CDC campaign to encourage flu vaccinations
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control are ramping up the campaign for flu…
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Investigating, localizing salmonella outbreak
As some of you may have noticed, there’s an egg recall going on. It all began when the CDC’s PulseNet…
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CDC releases 2007 foodborne illness numbers
In the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC has released the 2007 numbers on foodborne illness in the…
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CDC: Obesity rises unabated, no state meets goals
According to Vital Signs, a new part of the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (more on that in…
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FOI request for H1N1 documents still pending
Eleven months after she filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for…
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CDC says monitoring system finds no ill from spill
The CDC has two major monitoring programs active in the Gulf of Mexico during the spill: The National Poison Data…
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Raw, warm vegetables breed illness in salsa, guac
New research implicates guacamole or salsa in 3.9 percent of restaurant-related outbreaks of foodborne illness between 1998 and 2008, more…
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How the CDC used consumer mapping tech in Haiti
Writing for Government Health IT, Carolyn Duffy Marsan explores the CDC’s reliance on free and open source mapping software and…
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ER visits caused by nonmedical use of opioids double in 5 years
The latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC focuses on the rapid increase of emergency department visits caused…