News tagged with health centers

Hitting snooze on the molecular clock: Rabies evolves slower in hibernating bats

The rate at which the rabies virus evolves in bats may depend heavily upon the ecological traits of its hosts, according to researchers at the University of Georgia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gold rush sweeps Latin America, Amazon suffers

A new gold rush is sweeping through Latin America with devastating consequences, ravaging tropical forests and dumping toxic chemicals as illegal miners fight against big international projects.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alarming combo: Bedbugs with 'superbug' germ found

Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying "superbug" germs.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Study underscores link between walking, cycling and health

Want a slimmer, healthier community? Try building more sidewalks, crosswalks and bike paths.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Physical inactivity poses greatest health risk to Americans, research shows

As many as 50 million Americans are living sedentary lives, putting them at increased risk of health problems and even early death, a leading expert in exercise science told the American Psychological Association today.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Did Americans get any healthier over past decade?

(AP) -- About 10 years ago the government set some lofty health goals for the nation to reach by 2010.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages

Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Headache may linger years later in people exposed to World Trade Center dust, fumes

Workers and residents exposed to dust and fumes caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 frequently reported headache years later, according to research released today that will be presented ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study establishes importance of tracking diseases associated with illegal wildlife trade

An article released today in PLoS ONE entitled, Zoonotic Viruses Associated with Illegally Imported Wildlife Products, from a collaborative study led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), identified ev ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survivors of Joplin tornado develop rare infection

(AP) -- In the aftermath of the Joplin tornado, some people injured in the storm developed a rare and sometimes fatal fungal infection so aggressive that it turned their tissue black and caused mold to grow ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

FDA limits some antibiotics in livestock

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered farmers to limit the use of a type of antibiotics they give livestock because it could make people more resistant to a key antibiotic that can save lives, encouraging ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New arenavirus discovered as cause of hemorrhagic fever outbreak in South Africa and Zambia

Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases of National Health Laboratory Service (NICD-NHLS), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Air travelers may have been exposed to measles

(AP) -- Public health officials are warning travelers and workers present at four U.S. airports on two recent days that they may have been exposed to measles from a traveler arriving from London.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experts baffled by deadly outbreak of meningitis

Local, state and national health experts are baffled as to how a rare and deadly strain of meningitis killed four people and infected eight others in South Florida since December, an unprecedented outbreak in the United States.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researcher finds 9/11 attacks led to new understanding of mass trauma

(PhysOrg.com) -- Out of the wreckage of the World Trade Center attacks and the events of 9/11 came some of the first large-scale research of mass trauma. The resulting findings have led to a broader understanding of how post-traumatic ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1