CDC: Data Shows Worsening Flu Season
In the last week of December, flu was widespread in 41 states; flu-related child and infant deaths climbed to 18 and outpatient visits for flu symptoms had jumped to 5.6 percent.
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In the last week of December, flu was widespread in 41 states; flu-related child and infant deaths climbed to 18 and outpatient visits for flu symptoms had jumped to 5.6 percent.
In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday, about 4 percent of U.S. adults said they nodded off or fell asleep at least once while driving in the previous month.
Dr. David Katz said that some children have already died from flu complications and that even a garden variety flu season kills as many as 30,000 people.
The government says 170 people now have been sickened in the meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid shots, and 14 of them have died.
State health officials say a 70-year-old Cumberland County man is hospitalized with what is believed to be the illness. He received an injection of a steroid from one of the lots recalled by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts and tied to a meningitis outbreak.
So far, no cases of the fungal meningitis have been reported in the Tri-State Area.
Blumenthal said the compound pharmacies appear to operate in a "regulatory black hole," which must be closed.
Health Commissioner Mary O'Dowd said no cases have been uncovered in New Jersey, but in a statement said "This is an ongoing investigation and the full scope of the affected patients and facilities is not yet known."
Nassau County health officials said a resident from the town of Oyster Bay, who was older than 80, has died. No other specific details about the victim's death were announced.
Two of the patients who have been hospitalized for West Nile virus are from Suffolk County while the third is from Nassau County.
Consider this: the number of men who have children after the age of 40 has increased by more than 30 percent in the last 30 years. And in the last six years the rate of autism has doubled. Now, scientists are saying this is no coincidence.
The number of whooping cough cases has tripled in New York, and Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on health officials to provide free vaccinations.
This could be the worst year for whooping cough in this country in a half-century. So far this year, 1,288 cases have been reported in New York State -- three times the number from 2011.
The CDC said that even though it has a report on how to prepare for a zombie invasion, it acknowledges that there are no such things as zombies.
It's not just workers who were at the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 attacks who have suffered lingering health problems. It's also people who have lived in the area, WCBS 880's Peter Haskell reported
The announcement by the mayor comes following a study that was conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say 1 in 4 women have been the victim of domestic violence and 1 in 5 have either been raped or are the victim of an attempted rape.
The television personality drew a lot of heat in September when he claimed on his show that trace amounts of arsenic in apple juice may pose a health risk.
Football is back, and with it, the violent collisions that sometimes leave players with concussions
The FDA and a leading doctor are refuting claims by television show host Dr. Mehmet Oz that trace amounts of arsenic in many apple juice products pose a health risk.
New York is among the states where between one and three cases of illness was linked to the outbreak.
Hantavirus is a lung infection caused by a microbe sometimes found in urine, droppings or saliva of infected rodents. Humans can become infected by inhaling the microscopic particles.
While some New Yorkers are getting ready for a fiery end to the world, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is doling out some advice on how to prepare for a different type of global destruction: the "zombie apocalypse."
Summer is just over a month away and something to help keep us safe from mosquito-borne illness could be nixed.
New York City officials have confirmed that three New Yorkers contracted cholera while in the Dominican Republic for a wedding.
