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/ 5 years agoLargest Study of Sepsis Cases among Medicare Beneficiaries Finds Significant Burden
#Alarming -- U.S. hospitals saw a 40 percent increase in the rate of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with sepsis over the past...
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/ 5 years agoCDC: Adults Unintentionally Make It Easy for Young Children to Eat Dangerous Pills
Over half of kids poisoned by prescription pills got them after an adult removed safety packaging
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/ 5 years agoHHS Says It Has Joined Forces to Expedite Coronavirus Vaccine
The partnership will share research and development costs and expertise to help accelerate Janssen's investigational novel coronavirus vaccine into clinical evaluation.
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/ 5 years agoCDC Shipping Coronavirus Diagnostic Testing Kits Around Globe
Distribution of the tests will help improve the global capacity to detect and respond to the 2019 novel coronavirus.
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/ 5 years agoThis Super Bowl, Don’t Get Sacked by Foodborne Illness
According to the National Chicken Council, Americans will consume more than 1.4 billion chicken wings this Super Bowl Sunday.
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/ 5 years agoCDC Issues Federal Quarantine Order to Repatriated U.S. Citizens
According to the CDC, this legal order will protect the health of the repatriated citizens, their families, and their communities.
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/ 5 years agoCoronavirus Declared Public Health Emergency by US HHS
The declaration is retroactive and allows for more flexibility for states and local governmnts in using federal resources.
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/ 5 years agoCDC Advises Travelers to Avoid All Nonessential Travel to China
This warning is in response to an ongoing outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus (2019-nCoV) spreading between people in...
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/ 5 years agoVA releases updated DOD list identifying Agent Orange sites outside of Vietnam
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released in January an updated Department of Defense list of locations outside of Vietnam where...
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/ 5 years agoDPH Says Agency is Working to Identify and Prevent Spread of Coronavirus in Georgia
DPH has not confirmed any novel (new) coronavirus cases to date, however the situation could change.