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...backlash started when gun advocates realized that the model law gave health officials the power to restrict the sale of firearms in an emergency; the CDC quickly dropped the word firearms from its list of materials the government could control. Then religious and pro-family groups rebelled against forced treatment and vaccination; so several states considering the legislation took out provisions making refusal to be vaccinated a misdemeanor. Gay activists feared that the bill might permit states to quarantine people who have HIV or AIDS. The CDC responded by narrowing its definition of a public-health emergency. But the most...
...second study, conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reported that babies conceived through what doctors call assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have 2.6 times the risk of low or very low birth weight--a significant risk factor for cardiac and cognitive problems. "Our findings are controversial," concedes Dr. Jennifer Kurinczuk, a perinatal epidemiologist at the University of Leicester in England, who co-authored the birth-defects study, "and they aren't going to be the final word on the issue. But parents should be aware of the controversy...
This year’s outbreak has been so extensive that agents from both the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the New Hampshire Bureau of Health traveled to the campus to assess the situation. Stavis said it was “impossible” to determine the outbreak’s cause...
According to the Associated Press, both Dartmouth student health clinic doctors and the CDC have warned the disease may spread to students from other campuses during spring break—as infected students visit friends who go to other colleges. Both viral and bacterial conjunctivitis are highly contagious and spread through direct contact with infected individuals and contaminated objects...
...CDC Health Topic: Mammograms ? All about the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program...