Category: CDC

JGrimes
Want to be healthy? Perhaps you should move to Burlington, Vermont.
Rachael Voorhees via Flickr
The home of the healthy: Burlington, Vermont
Of all the U.S. metro areas examined by the CDC recently, Burlington had the largest proportion of people — 92% of them — who said they were in good or great health, according […]

Scott Hensley
Just in time for football season, California’s Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against three artificial turf companies, alleging that the companies have failed to disclose that their turf contains lead.
“The bottom line is this is 2008. Why are you making something with lead deliberately put into it?” Deputy AG Dennis A. […]

JGrimes
More people have been becoming infected with measles lately, at the same time as more parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids. A concern among such parents is their belief that the vaccine is linked to autism.
Researchers at Columbia University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sought to allay some of […]

JGrimes
Nearly two years ago Health Blog Jr. was eligible to get a vaccine against diarrhea, but his pediatrician, otherwise a big supporter of immunizations, recommended against it. The doctor wanted to wait for more experience with the new vaccine before making it routine in her practice.
The vaccine was Merck’s RotaTeq, a shield against […]

JGrimes
Bill Clinton, who has made fighting AIDS in the developing world a central theme of his post-presidency, called for more effort to fight the disease in the U.S.
He spoke yesterday at the big international AIDS conference on now in Mexico City.
Earlier at the conference, the CDC said it had been radically undercounting the […]

JGrimes
Illicit versions of the painkiller fentanyl were linked to more than 1,000 deaths in this country between 2005 and 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday.
The powerful painkiller, often mixed with cocaine or heroin and taken by injection, first caught the attention of the CDC in 2006, after it was […]

JGrimes
Weight-management programs for kids under 5 are gaining in popularity as more pediatricians and obesity experts believe it’s never too early to start shedding extra pounds, WSJ reports.
The main idea is to teach kids how to eat better. Poor eating habits have contributed to an increase in obesity rates among 2- to […]

JGrimes
Nobody wants to wind up in the ICU. But if you find yourself in intensive care in one of New York City’s public hospitals, your chance of catching some nasty infections is way down. And you can thank some pretty simple measures for the improvement.
Kings County Hospital Center (Photo: NYHHC)
“It’s not rocket science,” […]

JGrimes
Two years ago the Connecticut attorney general went after a national medical society he believed had used a flawed process in coming up with guidelines for treating Lyme disease. The group, the Infectious Disease Society of America, said its hands were clean. They settled the investigation today, and both sides basically declared victory.
Bull’s-eye […]

JGrimes
Want to reduce your chances of suffering from depression after you have a baby? Stay in school, don’t rush into things and get married first. The Health Blog doesn’t mean to preach at you; we’re just reporting on data published today by the CDC.
After crunching survey results from 17 states, the agency found […]