SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 on Tuesday to ban the sale of tobacco in pharmacies beginning this fall, making it the first U.S. city to impose such a… Continue reading
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Beginning next month, consumers will be able to check an online list of stores that sold or stocked recalled meat. U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA secretary Ed Shafer said the move is designed… Continue reading
WASHINGTON (Xinhua) — Nearly 70 percent of U.S. residents who get water from community water systems now receive fluoridated water, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Continue reading
Water systems serving about 30 percent of Americans are not giving them fluoridated water, six decades after fluoridation was started as a public health measure to prevent tooth decay, officials said on Thursday.
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Almost 8,000 U.S. recipients of the vaccine used to protect against cervical cancer have reported adverse reactions, ranging from pain at the injection site to serious side-effects, says the U.S. Centers for Disease… Continue reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new strain of West Nile virus is spreading better and earlier across the United States, and may thrive in hot American summers, researchers said on Thursday.
The virus infected an… Continue reading
Sitting in the Forbes Avenue Subway in Oakland, Nathan Pancoast said his club sandwich lacked an essential ingredient.
“It’s so dry without the tomato,”… Continue reading
The death toll in China’s outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease has risen to 42 children, with the capital Beijing reporting its first case Wednesday, state media said.
Parents sit… Continue reading
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended that people ages 60 and above should get Merck & Co Inc’s vaccine Zostavax to protect against shingles.
The CDC said the… Continue reading
Parents claiming that childhood vaccines cause autism should not be rewarded by the courts when the scientific community has already rejected any link, government lawyers argued Monday on the first day of a hearing in… Continue reading
In the case of a flu pandemic — yes, say government officials in a new report.
Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The… Continue reading
The Bush-Cheney administration’s Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have collectively set guidelines that recommend—in the event of… Continue reading
At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.
A virus that… Continue reading
All U.S. children aged from six months up to 18 should be immunized every year against influenza, a panel of federal vaccine advisers said on Wednesday.
The panel, which advises the U.S. Centers for Disease… Continue reading