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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    It's A Good Week To Skip the Spicy Tuna Roll

    Over 140 people in 20 states have been stricken with salmonella traced to yellowfin tuna meat scraped from bones and organs. One person in Florida has been sick, with the bulk of illnesses clustered in New York (28), Maryland (14), Wisconsin (14), and Illinois (13). The Centers for Disease Control p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Forbes' Gardasil Story Sheds Light on Why Florida's Well-Meaning HPV Legislation Failed

    Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State's official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The e ... More >>

  • News

    March 15, 2012

    Ink Wars: A New Law Pits Florida Tattoo Artists Against One Another

    Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State's official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    How to Increase Your Chances of Eating Locally Caught Seafood

    ​National Public Radio reported today that fish and spices are most often the culprits that make people sick. "It's not that imported foods are any nastier than homegrown, according to a presentation today from researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's that we're ea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Florida Anti-Vaccine Group Ignores Facts, Says It's Not Anti-Vaccine

    ​The Health Regulation Committee on Wednesday voted seven to zip in favor of SB 1116, a proposal to give parents of sixth-graders information on the human papillomavirus vaccine, which helps protect females from cervical cancer. As discussed yesterday, the original version of the bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Florida HPV Vaccine Bill Gets Watered Down Before Going to Committee; Anti-Vaccine Group Still Not Pleased

    ​Rick Perry tried making it mandatory. Michele Bachmann insinuated that it causes mental retardation. One of the world's top bioethicists bet Bachmann $10,000 to prove this claim. The human papillomavirus vaccine -- which helps protect women from certain strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Binge Drinking in Florida? Feds Say Not Here

    ​The Onion has penned many parodies of this state, including Florida Legalizes Taking Guns to Work; Florida State University to Phase Out Academic Operations by 2010; and 'Ravaged' Named Florida's Official State Adjective. Though it reads like it, this stat is no parody. According to the Centers f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    A Drug That Sort of Prevents HIV Transmission: What Could Go Wrong?

    ​Imagine a drug that could stop the spread of HIV. People could screw whomever they wanted however they wanted and sleep peacefully knowing that the virus wouldn't soon be waging an all-out assault on their immune systems. It sounds like a quick fix to one of history's most pressing public he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Cruise Ship Catastrophes: From Viruses to Pirates to Flying Furniture

    blmiers2​The Italian Coast Guard on Wednesday halted efforts to recover bodies from the wreckage of the Costa Concordia, a massive cruise ship that capsized last week off the coast of Italy. With at least 11 people dead and more than still 20 missing, the accident has already dealt a financial blo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Cruise Ships to Accommodate Fatter Passengers

    ​The U.S. Coast Guard is the last to acknowledge that people on boats are fatter than they were in 1960. So while cruise ships nixed armrests and installed wider seats years ago, the U.S. Coast Guard has just gotten around to raising the Assumed Average Weight Per Person from 160 to 180 pounds las ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    West Nile Virus Apparently Still a Thing -- Case Confirmed in Palm Beach County

    kintera.com​Palm Beach County's health department is reporting that a woman has acquired the West Nile virus -- the first case in the county in five years.The county issued a "mosquito borne disease advisory" yesterday when the case was confirmed, after the woman was diagnosed with the disease by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Fat, Sodium, Calories: Ten Dense Dishes

    weheartit.comDoes your food want you to die?​You see them on TV, you drive past them on the way home - chain restaurants that offer food, fun and convenience. We know its difficult to ignore their siren songs of cheap food and menus that weight more than a toddler.  In order to make your food ... More >>

  • Film

    September 8, 2011

    With "Contagion," Steven Soderbergh Turns the Star-Studded Hollywood Disaster Flick on Its Head

    weheartit.comDoes your food want you to die?​You see them on TV, you drive past them on the way home - chain restaurants that offer food, fun and convenience. We know its difficult to ignore their siren songs of cheap food and menus that weight more than a toddler.  In order to make your food ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Florida AIDS Medicine Waiting List Longest in America

    Flickr user: Sully Pixel​More than 3,600 Floridians are on a government waiting list for AIDS medicine -- the longest list in the country, according to the national nonprofit the AIDS Institute. Of the needy patients, 886 live in Palm Beach and Broward counties.The medicine, which keeps patients h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Over Seven Years, Prescription Drug Overdoses Killed Nearly Five People Per Day in Florida

    Wikimedia CommonsStructure of oxycodone.​We all know that many Floridians have been getting high over the past few years, but a new report says they've been getting way, way too high -- to the point of death.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a "morbidity and mortality" report ... More >>

  • News

    July 7, 2011

    Bernard Mevs, a Tiny Hospital Founded by Floridians, May Be Haiti's Best Hope

    Wikimedia CommonsStructure of oxycodone.​We all know that many Floridians have been getting high over the past few years, but a new report says they've been getting way, way too high -- to the point of death.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a "morbidity and mortality" report ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Allen West "Offended" by Planned Parenthood in Black Neighborhoods

    Allen West doesn't want women to get prenatal vitamins, either.​U.S. Rep. Allen West managed to sound relatively sane for the first hour of his town hall meeting in Palm Beach last night. He used lots of pie charts and graphs to outline bedrock GOP talking points about slashing spending and cuttin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    State Probe Into Acreage Cancer Cluster Is Over, but Lawyers Keep On Digging

    ​For more than a year, concerned families have been looking for answers about a disturbing trend of pediatric tumors and cancers around the Acreage, an unincorporated area between West Palm and Lake Okeechobee.Early this year, the Palm Beach County Health Department confirmed that a "cancer cluste ... More >>

  • News

    September 30, 2010

    The Killing of Calvin Williams: If You're Black and Gay in South Florida, Down-Low Sex Is a Deadly Gamble

    ​For more than a year, concerned families have been looking for answers about a disturbing trend of pediatric tumors and cancers around the Acreage, an unincorporated area between West Palm and Lake Okeechobee.Early this year, the Palm Beach County Health Department confirmed that a "cancer cluste ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2010

    Chinese Drywall Has Left Tens of Thousands of Homeowners Out of Options

    ​For more than a year, concerned families have been looking for answers about a disturbing trend of pediatric tumors and cancers around the Acreage, an unincorporated area between West Palm and Lake Okeechobee.Early this year, the Palm Beach County Health Department confirmed that a "cancer cluste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Lauderdale Dr. Gary Snyder Argues Against Flu Vaccine

    Snyder's home flu repellent: Vitamin D​Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CD ... More >>

  • News

    May 21, 2009

    Pit Bulls Banned in Miami Find Refuge in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

    Snyder's home flu repellent: Vitamin D​Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CD ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    No Worries: That lead-filled tap water is perfectly safe

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • News

    February 5, 2009

    South Florida's underground vampires lust for more than your heart

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    Heimlich Maneuvering

    Thousands of South Florida schoolkids were taught a faulty lifesaving technique

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    Florida Most Dangerous State For Eating Out

    Thousands of South Florida schoolkids were taught a faulty lifesaving technique

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Simmer Down, Kids!

    Sex-ed teachers want to know: How do you get hormones to listen to reason?

  • News

    January 3, 2008

    Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

    Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2007

    Food Critic Poisoned!

    Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2007

    The ABC's of Restaurant Cleanliness

    Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  • News

    December 21, 2006

    Blubber for Cash

    Bucking the health food tide: This middle school says, "Let 'em eat dougnuts."

  • News

    December 7, 2006

    Sex and the Single Sperm

    FAU's wild Darwinians are at it again. And this time, they want to measure your nutsack.

  • Music

    September 28, 2006

    Cool & Cocky

    Detroit's Electric Six toe the line between rock and mock.

  • Music

    April 6, 2006

    On a Roll

    Brendan O'Hara and the Humble Ones settle just long enough to make their mark on South Florida.

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    The Protection Racket

    And the band plays on

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Letters for November 3-9, 2005

    And the band plays on

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Letters July 29 - August 4, 2004

    And the band plays on

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Unsafe Sex

    Our intrepid reporter probes the gay orgies that have helped to spark a runaway syphilis outbreak

  • News

    March 28, 2002

    Acting Out

    Whether or not the state helps out AIDS sufferers, last week's botched protest says much about the HIV community's problem

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Look Back in Anthrax

    Magazine mogul David Pecker rates public agencies' response to the Boca debacle

  • News

    October 18, 2001

    Anthrax Side Show

    Media madness at disease central is no joke

  • Film

    June 7, 2001

    Old Ghosts

    Ivan Reitman's Evolution is so evolved it's backward -- a greatest-hits comprised entirely of misses

  • News

    January 28, 1999

    Color Blinded

    A federal grant earmarked for "African-Americans" with AIDS has care providers in Broward debating linguistics rather than logistics.

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    Swingers Redux

    Fed up with fear of infection and bored with the Internet, a new generation of swingers reinvents South Florida's sexual underworld

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Enough to Make You Sick

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

  • Calendar

    February 5, 1998

    The Single-Minded Professor

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

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