CDC Creating New Real-Time Disease Forecasting Center August 18, 2021 By Mrinalika Roy The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday it is creating a new disease forecasting center to...
Schumer Calls on CDC to Declare Emergency in Superbug Fight May 7, 2019 U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on the Centers for Disease Control to declare an emergency and unlock special funding...
U.S. Safety Board Says Train Crash Engineers Had Undiagnosed Sleep Disorder September 22, 2017 By David Shepardson The engineers in two New York City area commuter train crashes suffered from sleep apnea that had not been diagnosed,...
University of Michigan Gets $2.5M to Study Opioid Epidemic, Other Injuries August 7, 2017 The University of Michigan Injury Center has received $2.5 million from the Centers for Disease Control for research into the...
CDC Assisting Utah Investigation of Zika Virus Infection July 18, 2016 The Centers for Disease Control is assisting in the investigation of a case of Zika in a Utah resident who...
Gene Creating Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Detected in at Least 19 Countries January 25, 2016 By John Tozzi Just two months ago, researchers in China identified a gene that can make bacteria resistant to a last-resort antibiotic called...
Search For Source of Chipotle E.Coli in Pacific Northwest Faces Big Hurdles November 25, 2015 By Lisa Baertlein Investigators looking into the E. coli outbreak at Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. restaurants face “significant challenges” in finding the source...
Bird Flu Has Midwest Farmers Building Fences, Hosing Down Visitors October 2, 2015 By Lydia Mulvany and Linly Lin In Iowa, one of the largest U.S. egg processors has started to buy foreign supplies for the first time. Elsewhere...
Kids’ Biking Deaths Decline But Adult Deaths Rise August 14, 2015 By John Tozzi The rate of cycling deaths among American children under the age of 15 has fallen 92 percent since 1975. That...
Ebola Monitoring in Texas Expires for Some October 21, 2014 By Marilynn Marchione and Mike Stobbe About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one...