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President Obama on Friday named Dr. Thomas Frieden as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .Frieden has served as New York City's health commissioner for the past seven years. In that time, he spearheaded a campaign to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, boosted the number of New Yorkers getting HIV tests and helped to distribute millions of free condoms. Frieden also worked for the CDC from 1990 to 2002 in part as a CDC Epidemiologic Intelligence Service Officer, where he investigated the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis .In a statement, the president acknowledged Frieden's work in emergency preparedness."Dr. Frieden is an expert in preparedness and response to health emergencies, and has been at the forefront of the fight against heart disease, cancer and obesity, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and AIDS and in the establishment of electronic health records. Dr. Frieden has been a leader in the fight for health care reform , and his expe...
Fewer motorcyclists die in states that require helmets, and the costs to society are lower too, according to a new federal study released Thursday.About five times a...
U.S. adults are walking more than they did half a decade ago, but less than half are exercising enough to improve their health, according to a report released Tuesda...
Where would you start if you were charged with keeping the nation healthy? Dr. Thomas Frieden , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has chose...
At least 10,000 people and possibly far more die in the United States each year because they have not been screened for colon or breast cancer , according to a gover...
U.S. health authorities are turning to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter in a bid to prepare people to be vaccinated against the pandemic H1N1 vir...
Colon cancer deaths continue to drop across America — except in Mississippi, health officials said Tuesday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a re...
ATLANTA -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost or misplaced more than $8 million in property in 2007, losing track of items including computer a...
More Americans got food poisoning last year, with salmonella cases driving the increase, the government reported Tuesday. Illness rates for the most common serious t...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel recommended Tuesday routine vaccination of boys ages 11 and 12 with Gardasil, which protects against infe...
More than 72 million U.S. adults, or 26.7 percent, are obese, up 1 percent in two years, the U.S. government reported on Tuesday.Obesity has become "a major public h...
More than 72 million U.S. adults, or 26.7 percent, are obese, up 1 percent in two years, the U.S. government reported on Tuesday.Obesity has become "a major public h...
Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to ove...
President Obama on Friday named Dr. Thomas Frieden as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Frieden has served as New York City's health co...
In the battle against childhood obesity, New York City appears to be doing better than Los Angeles, at least for low-income preschoolers.A study released Thursday co...
More than half of young people in the United States who are infected with HIV are not aware of it, according to a report by government health officials that zeroes i...
It was 30 years ago today that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on a then-new ...
Terrie Hall has toured the country, speaking at schools and community gatherings about her firsthand experience with smoking-related illness. But the 51-year-old thr...
Many patients infected by the deadly superbug Clostridium difficile, long thought to be contracted mainly during hospital stays, are already exposed when they are ad...
Overdose deaths from powerful painkillers have been surging at an alarming rate in the U.S., but here's a sliver of good news: The number blamed on methadone appears...
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