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...statement from the school. “[Foege and Fauci] have probably changed the world between them as much as anyone in public health,” said the school’s dean, Barry R. Bloom. Foege is a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and a founding member of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a nonprofit group based in Atlanta, Ga. At the CDC, he devised the concept of “containment vaccination,” which contributed greatly to the eradication of smallpox. Fauci serves as the director...
...until a year ago I would have to say [obesity] was a concern driven by elites, meaning groups like the Centers for Disease Control or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the American Medical Association," says Dr. William Dietz, CDC's director of the division of nutrition and physical activities. "But in the last year there's been a real important shift...
...results of the study are still up in the air. “I don’t think anyone can predict the outcome,” HSPH Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert J. Blendon said. Under this contingency plan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would promote traditional approaches for contagion control such as washing your hands or covering your mouth when you sneeze. For his part, CDC quarantine chief Martin Cetron said that the results of the Harvard study could guide future methods of approaching the pandemic flu. The CDC...
...Brazil. "For the poorest developing countries that's still unaffordable, but with greater use and greater manufacturing, that price will go down," says Roger I. Glass, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center and former chief of the viral gastroenteritis unit at the cdc in Atlanta, Georgia. One dollar is about the price that Thai doctor Wandee would like to pay for the rotavirus vaccine. Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea in Thai children today. In the 40 years since Wandee began championing oral rehydration at the Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok, deaths from diarrhea...
...CDC is working on improving flu vaccination efforts, supporting employer-based vaccine programs, as well as college campus campaigns to get as many people as possible vaccinated before the worst of the winter weather hits. Getting vaccinated isn't a guarantee that you will fend off a bout with the flu, but it's a smart insurance policy against those aches and fever...