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Congress turned out to be tone deaf in responding to the crisis. Not long after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asked doctors to vaccinate only those at highest risk of deadly complications--people over 65, pregnant women, young children and patients with chronic medical conditions--the office of Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol's attending physician, was still freely dispensing vaccine. Some House and Senate members defended the practice on the grounds they meet a lot of elderly and sick people and shake a lot of hands--despite the fact that both President Bush and Senator Kerry had announced...
...March of Dimes, whose mission is to improve babies' health by preventing birth defects, teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the U.S. to deliver a public-health message: women of childbearing age should take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily. It's a simple act of preventive medicine that cuts the risk of neural-tube defects like spina bifida in developing fetuses by more than 50%. Apparently the message stuck. A March of Dimes poll designed to gauge awareness of the supplement's benefits found that while only half of American women ages...
...gets those shots? The CDC strongly recommends that available vaccines go first to those at highest risk of complications from flu: people ages 65 and older and ages six months to 23 months, women who plan to be pregnant this winter and health-care workers who are likely to be exposed to patients with compromised immune systems...
...know what folic acid is, you probably have the March of Dimes to thank for it. In 1998 the organization teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to deliver a public-health message: women of childbearing age should take 400 micrograms of the vitamin daily. It is a simple act of preventive medicine that cuts the risk of neural-tube defects like spina bifida more than 50% in developing fetuses. Apparently the message stuck. A March of Dimes poll designed to gauge awareness of the supplement's benefits found that while only half of women ages...
According to the CDC, 10-15 percent of bacterial meningitis is fatal, with another 10-15 percent of the survivors developing serious complications such as permanent hearing loss, mental retardation and loss of limbs...