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• in Technorati Women
  End Obesity in America? Not Likely Any Time Soon!
  The Obesity Fail: One More Losing Anti-Obesity Campaign. Will it Work?
  by goldensylph / on May 10, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  CDC Says 90% of Americans Eat Too Much Salt. Do You?
  Study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Says 90% of Americans Eat Too Much Salt. Are You the 90%?
  by goldensylph / on Feb 8, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  25% of Women Are Domestic Violence Victims
  New report by the CDC days that up to 36 million women are victims of domestic violence.
  by stephengfm / on Dec 14, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “centers for disease control and prevention”

 

• Advice from the CDC on travel and H7N9

  
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  By Megan Crawley O’Sullivan, MPH Avian influenza. H7N9. Bird flu. If you are planning a trip to China, these phrases might have you concerned. There are still many uncertainties regarding the new influenza A (H7N9) virus: it isn’t clear where the virus started or how people are getting sick, and a vaccine is ...
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• Foreign Food Inspections Decline as Illnesses Rise

  
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  The Food and Drug Administration is struggling to find the money to inspect foreign foods under a law that Congress did not support with funds.        
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• Study Finds 1 in 5 Suicidal Teens Have Guns in their Homes

  
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  A new study reports that nearly 20 percent of suicidal children and teens have guns in their homes. What’s more, 15 percent of those kids can access both guns and bullets. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people between the ages of 10 to 24 years in the United States, according to data from ...
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• Wish Granted for Green Bay’s Only Autism Treatment Center

  
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  About one of every 88 American children today has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . The rate of children diagnosed with autism — which occurs across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups — has ...
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• Decoding A Long-Sent Signal

  
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  People with autism spectrum disorders like Asperger’s Syndrome have become much more visible in a number of different media lately. For example, take Dr. Sheldon Cooper, the ASD brilliant, socially awkward star of the CBS sitcom  The Big Bang Theory . Sheldon has an amazing mind for physics, but has more tics than ...
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• Gonorrhea more deadly than AIDS found in Japan

  
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  Doctors are warning that a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea could be more deadly than AIDS, and are urging members of US Congress to spend $54 million for the development of a drug that would fight it. “ This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive [...]
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• New Study Reports One in Six Students Victim of Cyberbullying

  
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  One in six U.S. high school students reported being electronically bullied within the past 12 months, according to a new study. The study also found that almost one-third of high school students spend three or more hours each day playing video games or using a computer. “Electronic bullying of high school students ...
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• More People Die by Suicide Than Car Accidents

  
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  Suicide. It remains a topic few health professionals want to discuss openly with their patients. It remains a topic avoided even by many mental health professionals. Policy makers see it as a black hole without an obvious solution. And now grim new statistics confirm a disturbing trend — more people are taking ...
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• Prescription Medicine Disposal

  
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  Are you aware that some of the most dangerous substances to children and adolescents may be sitting in your medicine cabinet? Every year, children mistakenly ingest prescription medications that are not secured properly. Even scarier is that some adolescents purposely find and abuse these medications. In fact, ...
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• Gun Research

  
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  (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One important component of rational decision making is acquiring the best available evidence regarding the subject at hand. This is because there are two main components to having a good argument. The first is the quality of the reasoning being used (that is, how well the premises support ...
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• Suicide Rate Rises Sharply in U.S.

  
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  The suicide rate among middle-age Americans rose 30 percent from 1999 to 2010, with more people now dying of suicide than in car accidents.        
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• Gun Research

  
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  (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One important component of rational decision making is acquiring the best available evidence regarding the subject at hand. This is because there are two main components to having a good argument. The first is the quality of the reasoning being used (that is, how well the premises support ...
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• Education campaign to help Indiana residents quit smoking returns

  
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  Continuing with the success of last year’s landmark national tobacco education campaign, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is airing a second series of ads featuring real people who are living with the effects of smoking-related diseases.
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• Congress Prepares $100 Million Bipartisan Flu Tax

  
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  The Weekly Standard reports: Congress is preparing to take action on a bipartisan proposal to raise taxes on flu vaccines. This is not a tax on the wealthy, but rather on a broad swath of Americans, or at least those who choose to be immunized against the flu. In February, identical bills were introduced in the ...
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• Links I Like

  
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  Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing.  Click here for past Links I Like . Charles Stone on  Are you a sleep deprived pastor? 3 questions to help you avoid leadership blind spots . Gary Molander on When churches lie . ...
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• New Bird Flu Strain Spreads Outside of China

  
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  A man in Taiwan has contracted the H7N9 virus, and officials in the region are taking precautions to prevent spread to their countries.        
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• Watch Out For H7N9 Bird Flu

  
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  Anyone been paying attention to the spread of the H7N9 bird flu virus in China? This is something to keep an eye out for. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website: On April 1, 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) first reported 3 human infections with a new influenza A (H7N9) virus in China. ...
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• Infant Mortality Rate in U.S. Declines

  
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  A drop of 12 percent from 2005 through 2011, attributed in part to a decline in premature births, was reported.        
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• Alkermes Stock Climbs on Positive Trial for Depression Drug

  
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  Luke Timmerman Investors weren’t expecting Alkermes to do anything big this year to help people deal with major bouts with depression. But today the Dublin, Ireland and Waltham, MA-based company showed it just may be onto something important for this form of mental illness. Shares of the company climbed more ...
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• Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on ‘Superbugs’

  
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  Data show a sizable increase in the amount of meat contaminated with antibiotic-resistant forms of bacteria, like salmonella, E. coli and campylobacter.        
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