This Simple Habit Is the Biggest Predictor of Your Child’s Chances for Success
Compared to other health indicators, sleep is most important. A study presented at SLEEP 2022 found that a community’s sleep health is the most important…
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Zoonotic Diseases: How To Protect Yourself Against This Deadly Threat to Pet Owners
Owners of non-traditional pets have a higher risk of catching zoonotic diseases The danger of contracting zoonotic diseases, which are infections that transfer between animals…
Catching COVID in the Past Won’t Protect You Against Omicron
However, a study of neutralizing antibodies reveals that vaccinations are protective. Children who previously had COVID-19 (or the inflammatory condition Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children)…
CDC Failure: Internal Investigation Finds Design Errors and Contamination in First Batch of COVID-19 Tests
False positive reactivity in earliest RT-PCR tests due to contamination and design errors. The earliest batch of COVID-19 tests distributed by the US Centers for…
CDC Expands Eligibility for COVID-19 Booster Shots to All Adults Ages 18 Years and Older
On November 19, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) expanded recommendations for booster shots to…
Did the CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Strategy Work?
The CDC’s vaccine prioritization strategy performed well compared to other approaches, though with some room for improvement. The four-tiered vaccine prioritization strategy implemented by the…
CDC Testing Shows Recently Discovered “Smallpox” Vials Contain No Trace of Variola Virus
Laboratory testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today showed that recently discovered vials marked as “smallpox” contain vaccinia, the virus used…
CDC Releases COVID-19 Safety Guidelines for Holiday Celebrations
Holiday traditions are important for families and children. There are several ways to enjoy holiday traditions and protect your health. Because many generations tend to…
Did the CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy Work? Comparing 17.5 Million Options
A year ago, amid surging COVID-19 cases and a limited supply of newly developed vaccines, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention faced a…
CDC Releases New COVID-19 Holiday Celebration Guidelines – Safer Ways To Celebrate Christmas
Holiday traditions are important for families and children. There are several ways to enjoy holiday traditions and protect your health. Because many generations tend to…
Tense Decision-Making As CDC Joins FDA in Recommending Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Shot for Certain Populations
Following the recommendations of its vaccine advisory committee, the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authorization to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine booster dose for certain…
Public Trust in the CDC Falls During COVID Pandemic
Public trust in the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fallen during the coronavirus pandemic, with the decline bringing overall population-level trust in…
CDC Real-World Research: Protective Benefits of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Confirmed
Study involved health care personnel, first responders, and essential workers in six states. A new CDC study provides strong evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are…
COVID-19: How to Properly Wash Cloth Masks According to the CDC
Masks are an additional step to help slow the spread of COVID-19 when combined with every day preventive actions and social distancing in public settings….
Know the Facts About COVID-19 Coronavirus and Help Stop the Spread of Rumors
[Editor’s Note: These facts, straight from the U.S. CDC, were from very early in the COVID pandemic (February 2020). As such, some of the information…
Strategic Napping Allows Workers to Perform Better at Arduous Tasks
Roughly 41 million people in the USA, nearly a third of all working adults, get six hours or fewer of sleep a night, according to…
CDC Says That There’s Only One Drug Left to Treat Gonorrhea
Six months after a warning was published in the medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine that gonorrhea was quickly becoming untreatable by the…
Central American Bats Harbor a New Subtype of Influenza
It’s been reported that fruit bats in Guatemala are hosting a new type of the influenza A virus, according to a new study published in…
