So far, many doctors’ offices and hospitals have stuck to the months outlined by the CDC guidance. “The cutoff dates have been taken very dogmatically,” Rick told me. At the start of the ...
“Heat can impact our health, but heat-related illness and death are preventable,” said CDC Director Mandy Cohen, M.D., M.P.H. “We are releasing new heat and health tools and guidance to help ...
Many regions across the United States experienced "record-breaking high temperatures" in 2023 due to extreme heat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Emergency room ...
Typically, meningitis infections strike babies or adolescents and young adults. The CDC’s alert comes after the Virginia Department of Health warned about five deaths from the same rare ...
April 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. CDC on Friday issued a health alert to inform clinicians, state health departments and the public of a case of avian influenza in a person who had contact with dairy ...
An invasive bacterial infection is on the rise in the U.S., according to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Cases of meningococcal disease, mainly caused by the ...
Fake Botox is on the CDC’s radar. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Friday that it is investigating reports of "a few botulism-like illnesses in several ...
In the alert, the CDC explained that a variant of the Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y has reported 140 cases in 2024 so far. Although meningitis typically affects infants and young adults ...
The CDC's latest statistics on STDs in the U.S. show that chlamydia, Hepatitis C, and syphilis were among the diseases that have been infecting Americans aged 55 and older at an alarming rate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is cracking down on fake Botox injections after receiving reports of 19 people in nine states who experienced "harmful reactions," the national ...
In an alert to doctors on Thursday, the CDC noted an increase in cases of one type of invasive meningococcal disease, most of it due to a specific strain of bacteria. Last year, 422 cases of it we ...