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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

In Episode 84 David discusses the genocide of indigenous people in Canada with James Daschuk, an associate professor in the faculty of Kinesiology and Health…
A major global public health crisis may soon be produced by the wholesale use of antibiotics in the food of healthy farm animals. The resistance…
Blowing the pro-water-fluoridation argument out of the water, a new studyby Harvard and University College London just found Brits — notoriously crooked smiles and all —…
Julie Gerberding was in charge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2002 to 2009, which includes the years the FDA approved…
As a person ages, their circadian clock begins to slow down. But a study of nearly 150 human brains suggests that’s also when a new…
Following the discovery in the UK of bacteria that resist the most common antibiotic of last resort, a leading British expert is warning it is "almost too…
"Many doctors overprescribe painkillers because they have relationships with pharmaceutical companies and they get pay offs," said James Petras, a professor emeritus of sociology atBinghamton University in Binghamton,…
More than half of U.S. states are poorly prepared to respond to infectious disease outbreaks, a new report says. Twenty-eight states and Washington, D.C. did…
The Centers for Disease Control recommend 69 doses per child, which is a lot of chemicals.   I was pro-vaccine before the birth of my…
When it comes to sexual education, American schools are failing. There’s no nice way to put this: Sex education in the United States sucks. The Centers for…
Marcella Piper-Terry shared: “Have you heard about the new diagnostic criteria? It’s called Sudden Adolescent/Adult Death Syndrome (SAADS). Just like Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS),…
As we are nearing 2020, it’s a fair question to check in on how close the nation is to reaching the targets set by Healthy…