Because this vaccine contains a live virus, the CDC maintains a surveillance system to watch for human infections.
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During last year's flu season, Google Flu Trends picked up a significant rise in such search terms on January 28, 2008, and two weeks later the CDC saw a rise in cases reported from local health departments.
In fact, the CDC conducted a major two-year independent study of various regulatory laws in 2003.
In a 1990 CDC study, not a single state had an obesity rate greater than 15 percent.
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Also on Thursday, the CDC released a separate study on overall contraceptive use.
Get inked and you might get more than you bargained for, warns the CDC in a new announcement today.
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One example: While the journalistic scolds bash Pfizer for supporting the National Press Foundation they have no problem taking money from the CDC for a similar AHCJ fellowship.
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The return of the campaign is already being applauded by some anti-smoking advocates, who say tobacco companies spend more on tobacco product promotion in a week than the CDC spends in a year.
Why were Weight Watchers commercials featuring former player and current NBA announcer Charles Barkley and a disturbing CDC anti-smoking commercial featuring a woman named Terrie on constant loop throughout the playoffs, as if NHL fans are all fat smokers?
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In a 2010 survey conducted by the CDC, more than a third of parents of children aged 6 years and younger said they were concerned about how many vaccines a child receives in the first two years of life, and about how many shots they were given in a single doctor's visit.
While a quarter of Americans are now defined by the CDC as obese and a recent New York Times Magazine cover asked, Is Sugar Toxic?
Anything that gets the body moving can be good exercise, said Janet Fulton, a CDC epidemiologist.
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That particularly was true for those 65 or older, according to a CDC report Thursday.
In 2004, a CDC scientist studied the effects of obesity on the airline industry.
Despite this case, the benefits of organ transplantation "generally outweigh the risks", the CDC said in a statement.
Once a particular food is identified for this outbreak, the public will be notified, according to a CDC statement.
The CDC also maintains a separate page listing all possible side effects from a long list of vaccines.
Autism Speaks' Dawson said the new CDC report highlights a public health crisis.
Symptoms include fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, or rash, the CDC said in a statement this week.
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"It is not clear why we are seeing more activity than in recent years, " said Marc Fischer, a CDC medical epidemiologist.
"One of the cooks doing active food preparation had a goatee and was not wearing a beard restraint, " a CDC inspector noted.
International travel is among the most common hepatitis A risk factors, accounting for 15% of U.S. cases in 2005, a CDC study found.
And an infant who contracted measles at the pediatrician's office later traveled by plane to Hawaii while still infectious, according to a CDC report.
The recipients of the donor's heart, liver and other kidney are receiving anti-rabies vaccines, the CDC said in a news release on Friday.
In 2009, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released a report about the game after several deaths around the country were attributed to the behavior.
New England -- particularly Massachusetts -- and the New York and New Jersey areas have been hit the hardest, Schuchat said Thursday at a CDC news conference.
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"We've only got the two cases to go on and both kids recovered on their own, so that's certainly good news, " says Tom Skinner, a CDC spokesman.
Tom Skinner, a CDC spokesman, said the agency has sent H1N1 strains to roughly seven labs around the world to use in the first steps of vaccine development.
She said there are different ways to determine prevalence and that the CDC is considering a total population study of autism, but that it is not yet under way.
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