"China virus," the Chinese virus—at the start of the 2020 pandemic, this epithet was often encountered in the media. The use ...

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More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency are being reinstated. That’s according to a union ...

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In Faulkner, it appears to be spreading within the community. As of May 22, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had reported 14 outbreaks nationwide, defined as three or more ...

In both CSU and RA, disease control scores positively correlated with QoL scores, meaning better disease control was associated with better QoL. Despite this correlation, 5.9% of CSU patients and ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for every 100 males, 13 will develop prostate cancer at some point in their lives.

ALS is a rare disease, and only in the past few years did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) create a registry that officially tracked ALS prevalence in the U.S. In 2022, almost ...

A virologist, he was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the first Trump administration. Robert Moffit, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow in the Center for Health ...

Cruise ship passengers splash out big bucks for private hot tubs in their own staterooms all the time — but the Center for Disease Control is warning against the exclusive amenity, calling them ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists it as the leading cause of invasive mold infections in people. It's also resistant to many treatments, with a mortality rate as high as 33%.