Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer: What Are The Advanced Signs?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in every 64 people will develop pancreatic cancer. With it being this common, it is important to make sure that you know both the early and late signs More...
athenahealth rolls out help for medical community during COVID pandemic
athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of network-enabled services for ambulatory and enterprise customers nationwide, is activating its network to help healthcare providers quickly make informed decisions and ease More...
Autism: Rates among racial minorities increasing faster
Autism rates among racial minorities in the United States have increased by double digits in recent years, with black rates now exceeding those of whites in most states and Hispanic rates growing faster than any More...
Uniforms and the Workplace: Comfort Affects Employee Morale
Before a company spends time and money on employee engagement, it’s a good idea to find out how comfortable employees are while at work. Safety is always the first concern, but employees who are comfortable at More...
Utah man, William Clyde Allen, charged for sending ricin to White House
A Utah man has been charged with sending a series of letters threatening to unleash the deadly poison ricin to President Trump, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and several other top administration officials. Identified More...
Where Fat Matters: Growing Waist Lines Risk Metabolic Syndrome
The American obesity epidemic is old news; as of 2016, the CDC reports that nearly 40% of Americans are obese. What most people don’t understand, though, is that not all obesity is created equal. While being overweight More...
Cigarette smoking down in the US: CDC
Overall, cigarette smoking among U.S. adults (aged ≥18 years) declined from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 15.5 percent in 2016. Yet, nearly 38 million American adults smoked cigarettes (“every day” or “some days”) More...
Kentucky: Gov Matt Bevin signs 20-week abortion ban due to fetal pain, requires ultrasound, heartbeat check prior to abortion
Governor Matt Bevin signed two bills on Monday restricting abortions in Kentucky, just days after they were quickly introduced and passed in the legislature. The state Senate approved the measure requiring an ultrasound More...
Hillary Clinton Proposes Rapid Response Fund to Fight Pandemics, improve Public Health Infrastructure
Hillary Clinton released the following statement on her plans to bolster America’s public health infrastructure to deal with the new challenges facing our communities and our families, including a new Public Health More...
Targeting Mosquitoes To Control Zika
MIAMI BEACH, FL. – With the latest efforts by county officials to prevent the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, Miami residents are amongst the first in the entire country to deal with the ramifications More...
Tokyo Psychiatrist Doug Berger Offers Tips for Promoting Learning in Children with ADD/ADHD
Dr. Doug Berger, psychiatrist in Tokyo Japan, explains how best to educate children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. As the dog days of summer descend on the Northern hemisphere and a new school year More...
Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day, so eat your ‘dirt candy’
photo/ www.agrilicious.org/ Today, June 17, is National Eat Your Vegetables Day, presented by Agrilicious, (http://www.agrilicious.org). Agrilicious is at the heart of the food movement providing an exciting way More...
CDC expert, Dr. Jennifer Cope talks parasitic meningitis and Naegleria fowleri
On the Saturday, July 27 airing of Dispatch Radio, Dr. Jennifer Cope, Medical Epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spoke to Dispatch Radio co-host, Robert Herriman, MPH, M(ASCP) More...
CDC Foundation honors former US President Jimmy Carter
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter received the 2012 CDC Foundation Hero Award at a ceremony Oct. 18 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC Foundation is honoring President Carter for three More...
The second hemorrhagic fever vaccine success story in less than a month: this time it’s Marburg
As I reported on May 24, 2010, the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in conjunction with other agencies came up with a vaccine which produced immunity in monkeys against the Ebola More...
Salmonella triggers nationwide sprout recall
Salmonella found in raw alfalfa sprouts appears to have sickened 22 people in 10 states, including one infant in Oregon, prompting a nationwide recall of the product. The sprouts, produced by Caldwell Fresh Foods, More...
