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Americans don’t think bird flu is a threat, study suggests
Public Ignorance and Apathy Towards Bird Flu Could Lead to Public Health Crisis In a recent editorial published in the American Journal of Public Health, researchers from the CUNY Graduate…
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Teenaged anti-smoking activist laments impact of CDC cuts
Breanna Cutright, an 18-year-old high school senior in Clarksburg, West Virginia, was in the middle of preparing for her junior…
CDC Vaccine Search Tool No Longer Works. Vaccines.gov Website Scrubbed
The Vaccine.gov website, maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help people find vaccination locations, is…
Tracy Beth Høeg, Vinay Prasad, ACIP, FDA: Morning Rounds
The FDA has announced that Tracy Beth Høeg will be taking over as the new leader of the FDA's Center…
Why The Hepatitis B Birth Dose Is At Risk From New CDC Vaccine Advisors
The reformulated vaccine advisory committee convened today and tomorrow with the intention of making significant changes to children's access to…
Faulty glucose monitors linked to 7 deaths, more than 700 injuries
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning urging individuals to discontinue the use of certain glucose monitor…
Urgent Care Is Rewriting Healthcare’s Rules
The concept of disruption in the business world is often associated with being cheaper, as Clayton Christensen, a renowned mentor,…
CDC vaccine panel poised to recommend changing hepatitis B birth-dose
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting took an unexpected turn as the panel postponed voting on overturning a…
Humana, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs Working On Partnership
Cost Plus Drugs founder Mark Cuban (Center) speaks at the annual Forbes Healthcare Summit Thursday, December 4th in New York…