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May 16, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Headlines include: WHO Reports First Patient-to-Nurse Transmission of SARS-like Virus Repeated Head Injuries Raise Soldiers' Suicide Risk HHS Announces $1 Billion to Fuel Health Care Innovation
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
During the H1N1 outbreak, the authors of this study monitored disease activity by analyzing public messages, "tweets," on the social networking site Twitter. The study established a model for monitoring disease outbreaks in real time.
January 28, 2013 | New Public Health Post
During the H1N1 outbreak of a few years ago, there was much greater funding for what the health departments were doing. I saw some magic happening then. They had the funds to hold clinics in very unusual places, such as local baseball stadiums and a ...
September 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Each year, roughly 48 million Americans get sick from foodborne diseases, 128,000 people are hospitalized and 3,000 die from related complications.
December 3, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The proportion of flu-related doctor visits has reached a nine-year high for this time of year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as reported by USA TODAY. Correct anyone who tells you it’s too late to get a flu shot, thou ...
November 6, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Some people will exercise their right to protect themselves against the flu when they vote today. Throughout the country, “Vote & Vax” clinics have been set up at or near polling places to help improve the chance that people who still haven’t had th ...
September 18, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Crowds of public health officials thronged Mary Selecky, Secretary of the Washington State Department of Health since 1999 and a former ASTHO president, at the ASTHO annual meeting, likely for her wisdom as a long time health director grappling with ...
August 27, 2012 | Story
Scott Kobner, the son of police officers, developed an early interest in infectious disease. What propelled that attraction into an education and career plan, he says, was the Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition.
April 30, 2012 | New Public Health Post
CDC Says Plane Scare Unlikely to Have Been Monkey Pox Investigators from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention boarded a plane to examine—and then release—a woman with a rash who arrived back in the US from Uganda late last week. The immedi ...
April 27, 2012 | New Public Health Post
This week is National Infant Immunization Week, an annual observance to promote vaccinations in kids two and younger. Last September the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that childhood immunization rates for vaccines routinely re ...