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• Americans Still Making Unhealthy Choices: CDC

  like smoking, heavy drinking or not exercising, a new government report shows.Released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the report found Americans continuing to make many of the lifestyle choices that have led to soaring rates   Read more »

• CDC Guidelines Could Cut Bloodstream Infections From Dialysis

  infection rates among their patients by up to half by following a set of recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , according to new research.The CDC suggested that adopting their protocols could save lives and reduce health   Read more »

• LI scientists develop new Lyme vaccine

  at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Baxter Healthcare S.A., an Illinois -based health-products company.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2011, the most recent year for complete statistics, there were more than 24,000 confirmed   Read more »

• EPA investigates leaking drum at superfund site

  Rodriguez said.According to News 12 footage, the drum was labeled hydrofluoric acid, which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , is used to make such things as refrigerants and can be fatal in high doses.Rodriguez said the fluid has   Read more »

• Many Seniors Suffer Mental Decline in Silence: CDC

  or memory loss caused problems at work or with social activities and household chores, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .The findings underscore the need to be alert for early signs of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, experts   Read more »

Around the web

• US sends H7N9 candidate vaccine viruses

  avian influenza, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday. The candidate viruses, provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were delivered to Taiwan May 18, Deputy Health Minister Lin Tzou-yien. The CDC officially notified 3:19 PM from China Post Read more »

• Minnesota teen pregnancies drop 30%

  2011, the number of teens giving birth in the state dropped by more than 30 percent. That number's from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report out [Thursday], which shows a remarkable decline in teen births nationwide. The rates dropped at least 1:05 PM from MinnPost.com Read more »

• Teen Birth Rates Down Across America Hispanic Girls Had Sharpest Drop

  report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that teen birth rates in America fell sharply from 2007 to 2011, by as much as 34 percent on average for Hispanic girls. No comments yet for this story Independiente Santa Fe defeated Gremio 10:02 AM from Albequerque Express Read more »

• Dog Bites: Can Dog Owners be Held Legally Liable?

  to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dogs bite approximately 4.7 million Americans each year. Around 800,000 of those victims require medical attention and 386,000 require emergency medical attention. The severity of dog bites varies from 6:17 AM from YoublawG Read more »

• New Pneumococcal Vaccine Appears To Be As Safe As Previously Used Vaccine

  not increase the risk for any serious adverse events related to the vaccine. In a study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kaiser Permanente researchers evaluated the electronic medical records of nearly 600,000 children, ages 1 month 5:20 AM from Medical News Today Read more »