How many times can you call the bomb squad to your house for a suspicious package before you get charged for a misuse of emergency services. Turns out the answer is three. That is one of the many things I learned when I was sworn in as the 19th director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.It was a job I never aspired to or even applied. See, we were in the middle of a historic pandemic. Nearly 4,000 people were dying every single day.And as we say in infectious disease circles, a ...

Some US public health leaders blame food companies for the nation's obesity epidemic. Other critics blame a lack of willpower. @fayeflam explains why both theories are wrong. (via @opinion) https://t.co/CIoufCmuy0 ...

Legionnaires’ Disease Threatens NYC Again—Here’s What Causes It And Who’s Most At Risk https://t.co/kdG6jm31yQ https://t.co/lK2fcJzvHE ...

Southern Africa is suffering a malaria surge. It may be a harbinger of things to come https://t.co/ErGLQAXUx1 ...

Yeah. So, look, public health is slow to respond with tobacco and cigarettes, with heroin, cocaine, opioids. We don't want to get caught flatfooted again.There is a new there's a product that's a synthetic product in the vape stores that are popping up on every corner in America. And we want to educate people about that product. It's called 7.It has many other names. Sometimes it has the name 7 Omega or 7 metrogenine. And it is a synthetic byproduct of theratom plant.And the compounds in the cratom plant, w ...

[Music] [Applause] As a kid, I wanted to change the world. I wasn't really sure how or why, but I figured I'd come up with something eventually. My only criteria was that after watching enough TV growing up, I really did not want to become a politician.Eventually, I realized that everyone can change the world. We do it every day. Whether you ask someone how their day is going, cooking a loved one a meal, donating 50p to charity, or perhaps you're like me and you listen to people.When I was first writing thi ...

Health & Demographics - The proportion of severely overweight children in the US has skyrocketed in recent years [1] - The highest rates of severely overweight children are seen in adolescents and Black children [1]

We are talking to industry constantly to figure out how we can be helpful. Which of their products being proposed are in line with our national priorities. That is meeting a large unmet public health need.Domesticating manufacturing as a national security issue. Increasing the affordability of drugs, which is an access problem. This president does not like to see Americans getting ripped off.And we've been paying more for drugs than in many wealthy countries around the world. Can you do anything about that. ...

Public Health Crisis - U_S_麻疹病例达到三十年来的最高水平 [1] - 在不到七个月的时间里，已达到自 1992 年以来的最高年度总数 [1] Data Source - 数据由疾病控制和预防中心 (CDC) 发布 [1]

The US Department of Health and Human Services postponed a meeting of a preventive services task force scheduled for Thursday, Axios reported, a move that alarmed some public health experts. https://t.co/fTmvB0OrZT ...