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Thomas Friedensen (1879 – 1931) was an English-born artist, active in Australia.
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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...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...
At 18 months, Cristina Astacio spoke only a few words, wouldn't respond to her name and shunned other kids in her day care group. Last October, her worried parents f...
Most Americans with the biggest risks for heart disease are not doing enough to control these risks, and the fragmented U.S. healthcare system is partly to blame, fe...
ATLANTA (AP) — Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising ...
One in four high school students and adults ages 18 to 34 engaged in binge drinking in the past month, putting themselves and those around them at risk, U.S. governm...
More people die in America every year from prescription drug abuse than die from heroin and cocaine combined. That stunning finding comes in a new report Tuesday fro...
Think that you have your sodium intake under control? You may want to think again.A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed Tuesday ...
Fewer than half of Americans have had an AIDS test since guidelines were expanded to include routine screening, according to a government report released Tuesday.Las...
U.S. smoking rates continue to hold steady, at about one in five adults lighting up regularly, frustrated health officials reported Tuesday. About 21 percent of U.S....
Health officials launched a $54 million advertising campaign on Thursday depicting the health risks of smoking in gruesome detail, offering the latest salvo in the g...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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