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Meningitis outbreak toll: 231 cases, 15 deaths
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has ...
Steroid-linked outbreak toll: 214 cases, 15 deaths
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has ...
Scientists fight to halt a deadly outbreak
Scattered across the carefully landscaped main campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are the staff on the front lines fighting a ...
Meningitis outbreak toll: 184 cases in 12 states
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has ...
CDC: Meningitis outbreak growing, 14 people dead
Federal health officials have tracked down 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people who may have received contaminated steroid shots in the nation's ...
Meningitis outbreak toll: 170 cases, 14 deaths
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has ...
Meningitis outbreak toll: 137 cases, 12 deaths
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has ...
Meningitis outbreak toll: 119 cases, 11 deaths
The number of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak has now reached 119 cases, including 11 deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
13,000 got suspect steroid shots; risk uncertain
As many as 13,000 people received steroid shots suspected in a national meningitis outbreak, health officials said Monday. But it's not clear how many ...
CDC: Meningitis outbreak death toll rises to 7
Health officials say the death toll in a rare fungal meningitis outbreak across several states has risen to seven. In updated figures posted to its ...
Steroid-related meningitis cases rise to 47
As the tally from a deadly meningitis outbreak rose Friday, health officials identified the medical clinics across the country that received steroid ...
Baby bust continues: US births down for 4th year
U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy has ...
This year's flu vaccine guards against new strains
Time to get your flu vaccine — and a surprising new report shows babies and toddlers seem to be getting protected better than the rest of us.
Group: More than half in 39 states will be obese
We Americans already know how fat we are. Can it get much worse? Apparently, yes, according to an advocacy group that predicts that by 2030 more than ...
CDC: US kids eat too much salt, as much as adults
American children eat as much salt as adults — about 1,000 milligrams too much, or the same amount as in just one Big Mac. Extra salt is linked with ...
Whooping cough vaccine loses punch too fast
As the U.S. wrestles with its biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades, researchers appear to have zeroed in on the main cause: The safer vaccine ...
CDC reports incidents of tainted ricotta cheese
Federal health officials say ricotta cheese tainted with listeria bacteria is linked to 14 illnesses including at least one death. The imported ...
CDC: Nation on track for deadliest West Nile year
Health officials say they're convinced this will be the worst year for West Nile virus deaths and severe illnesses since the disease hit America's ...
Worst year ever for West Nile in Texas; 43 dead
It's the worst year ever for West Nile virus in Texas, which has seen about half of the country's deaths from the illness this year, health officials ...
Up to 10,000 Yosemite visitors at risk of virus
Up to 10,000 people who were guests in certain lodging cabins at Yosemite National Park might have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne virus, park ...
1st death linked to new swine flu is Ohioan, 61
The death of a 61-year-old Ohio woman is the first in the nation associated with a new swine flu strain, the state Department of Health said Friday.
CDC: 103 ill with salmonella tied to mangoes
Federal health officials are investigating a foodborne illness outbreak that has sickened more than 100 people in 16 states and has been associated ...
CDC: West Nile cases rise 40 percent in 1 week
West Nile virus cases are up 40 percent since last week and may rival the record years of 2002 and 2003, federal health officials said Wednesday.
Study: Tattoo infections traced to tainted ink
An outbreak of infected tattoos has led to an unlikely source: the ink. With the growing popularity of tattoos, health officials say they are seeing ...
CDC: West Nile outbreak one of largest in US
The current West Nile outbreak is one of the largest in the U.S., with four times the usual number of cases for this time of year, federal health ...