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...there are still any doubts that obesity is a major public health problem in the U.S., a report from the CDC last week should put them to rest. According to the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, rich diets and sedentary lifestyles led to 400,000 deaths in 2000, just behind the nation's No. 1 cause of preventable deaths: tobacco (435,000). By next year obesity will probably kill more Americans than smoking. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson used the occasion to launch a series of clever public-service ads, but antiobesity activists...
Marasco and Sui led a team including researchers from Dana-Farber, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Children’s Hospital Boston...
...unanswered question about this winter's flu epidemic was whether the vaccine that Americans were clamoring to get would protect against the predominant Fujian strain. We may have the answer. A preliminary CDC study of 1,818 Colorado hospital workers suggests the vaccine had "no or very low effectiveness"--from 3% to 14%--against the Fujian...
...effective against this year's strain of virus. At the same time, health officials urged that all healthy babies between the ages of 6 months and 23 months be vaccinated. Thankfully, the worries proved to be overblown, but as experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pointed out, when it comes to the flu, it's far better to be safe than sorry...
...seven points lower on an IQ test than kids with a level of only 1 mcg/dl. The guidelines for safe lead levels have been revised repeatedly over the years, from 60 mcg/dl before 1970 to 25 mcg/dl in 1985 to 10 mcg/dl. They may have to change again. The CDC estimates that 1 in 10 children under age 6 has a blood level of 5 mcg/dl or higher...