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California reported deaths from the flu epidemic jumped by 50 percent from 10 for the last week of 2017 to 15 for the first week of 2018.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold a training and information session this month to help professionals prepare for the prospects of nuclear war.

Research scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston say they developed a promising new drug that curbs obesity without dieting and, based upon preliminary study findings, they may be on their way to unleashing a breakthrough for the millions who struggle with their weight.

The State of California is reporting that the deadly 2017-2018 flu epidemic is running at 300 percent above average for the last five years.

The number of teenagers having sex during their high school years has dropped over the last two years and been in decline for a decade, according to a report.

An outbreak of Hepatitis A in Michigan that began in August 2016 has seen the number of cases reported in 2017 increase by a factor of ten since 2015, the last full year of reporting prior to the current outbreak.

The Trump administration says the report by some media that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has “banned words” such as “fetus” and “transgender” in budgetary documents is a “complete mischaracterization” of discussions regarding the process of preparing budgets.

The California hepatitis A outbreak is on the verge of reaching statewide epidemic status, as cases have spread through homeless tent cities from San Diego north to Sacramento.

The pharmaceutical industry, which has financially backed Luther Strange’s political career, doesn’t care about whether Americans become addicted to dangerous prescription painkillers, charged Breitbart News reporter Aaron Klein in a radio segment.

NEW YORK — During a period he served as Alabama Attorney General, Luther Strange received more campaign contributions than any other U.S .attorney general from members of a controversial lobby group peddling the dangerous prescription pain medication business amid an ongoing opioid crisis in Alabama.

Typhus, a flea-borne infectious disease thought to be all but eradicated in the United States, appears to be on the rise in Texas, say tropical disease experts.

The German equivalent of the Centers for Disease Control says the number of active cases of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in Germany increased 30 percent in one year, jumping to 5,852 in 2015, up from 4,488 in 2014. That dramatic increase slowed significantly in 2016, when 5,915 cases were reported.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed an Alabama mad cow case. Officials discovered bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an 11-year-old cow not connected with the human food chain.

Texas officials hope to contain the spread of tuberculosis (TB) and avoid a serious health threat by conducting a second round of mass testing at a Houston-area high school where, in recent weeks, the number of people that tested positive for the infection jumped from four to six and now, 10.

Dallas Morning News editor Mike Wilson published a piece on June 27 admitting that news outlets, including his own, ran exaggerated stats on “kids and guns.”

The barbaric practise of female genital mutilation — a procedure made unlawful by the Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 — has been thrust to the fore of public debate in the United States following the arrests of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala,

Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson has introduced a motion to end oil drilling and production near public places in a measure that could kill America’s next oil and gas fracking boom.

The mosquitos that can carry the Zika virus have reportedly appeared in 129 California cities. With cold winter weather the only major obstacle to the Zika virus becoming America’s first pandemic since the 1957 Asian Flu, ground zero for a potential pandemic is now the West Coast.

Fears of a norovirus outbreak are taking center stage after the death of two Santa Monica High School students this school year.

CNN is reporting that bullet fragments lodged in the human body can cause lead poisoning which, in turn, can cause high blood pressure.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has cancelled a major conference on climate change next month.

The refugees resettled by the federal government in New Hampshire produced 29 percent of all diagnosed active tuberculosis (TB) cases in the state during 2014 and 2015, says the Centers for Disease Control.

The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed that eight refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) “during the initial health screening or within 90 days of the refugee arrival” in the four years between 2012 and 2015.

Minnesota has the highest rate of refugee tuberculosis (TB) per capita of any state in the country by a wide margin, with 4.08 cases of active TB diagnosed among refugees for every 100,000 residents in the general population between 2012 and 2015.

The state of Virginia refuses to track the number of refugees it resettles who are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB).

Between 2012 and 2015, 1,565 refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in the United States, according to annual reports published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The CDC reports the number of heroin deaths was 12,989 and the number of firearm-related homicides was 12,979.

The Highway Patrol’s $11 million heroin bust on northbound Interstate 15 near Victorville highlights the growing California addiction to opiates.

On the eve of the World AIDS Day, Pope Francis urged people to adopt “responsible behavior” to halt the proliferation of the disease.

Syphilis is making a comeback among millennials thanks to Tinder, a new CDC report says.

Gun scholar John Lott discovered a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “coding error” which hid the fact that accidental gun deaths hit a record low in 2014.

In a June 2013 report issued in response to President Obama’s post-Sandy Hook executive order for “research [into] problems in firearm-related violence,” the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) observed that national surveys indicate guns are used defensively “500,000 to more than 3 million times a year.”

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that a majority of the record high rates of syphilis found in the United States is due to the sexual activity of gay and bisexual men.

contrary to the false claims made by Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during Wednesday evening’s debate – few, if any, of those abortions occurred because of the “life and health of the mother” or “something terrible” being discovered about the pregnancy.

During the third presidential debate, Hillary Clinton claimed that “33,000 people a year…die from guns.”

Extraordinarily high levels of latent TB infection among Sub-Saharan refugees who have arrived in Minnesota during the past decade appear to be the ticking time bomb that has exploded into 296 cases of active TB diagnosed in the state among refugees in the past five years.