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August 17, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reminding schools and parents that while many interacting with a “class pet” at school can present important opportunities to help children learn responsibility and nurturing, having animals in the c ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
April 25, 2012 | New Public Health Post
US Confirms Single Case of “Mad Cow” The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed the detection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a dairy cow from central California. The USDA says the animal wi ...
March 7, 2012 | New Public Health Post
In the latest podcast from the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Contagion screenwriter Scott Z. Burns answers questions about the fact or fiction of the movie alongside the film's scientific consultant and Director ...