The oral hygiene trend of tongue scraping may improve hygiene and reduce bad breath — but overdoing it could harm heart health by disrupting good bacteria and raising blood pressure risk.

Injury is the leading cause of death for people under the age of 45. But much of the staff at the CDC responsible for studying how to track and prevent injuries were cut during the recent firings.

Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're ...

STEUBENVILLE — Recent public health funding cuts by the Centers for Disease Control will impact the Jefferson County General Health District’s respiratory virus testing, Health Commissioner Andrew ...

C. difficile (C. diff) is one of the most common and contagious hospital-acquired infections. Research has found that C. diff spreads more than three times more than previously thought. C. diff can ...

So were the federal health officials who would respond in the case of a radiation emergency. All of those positions were housed within the CDC’s Division of Environmental Health Science and ...

“This is not the way to do good for the public or for the public’s health,” he added. The CDC’s largest contract -- about $7 billion a year -- is for the Vaccines for Children Program, which provides ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians ... that was once nearly eradicated in the U.S., but as you said, according to the CDC, may be making a comeback. So ...

The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Roni Caryn Rabin The extensive layoffs of federal ...

1. End the Wokeness In 2021, while C. auris cases soared 500%, the CDC was busy tutoring health care workers on avoiding gender-specific terms like "mother" and "father" and stigmatizing words like ...

“We have certainly seen it,” said Wu, chief epidemiologist and system director for infectious diseases at Hartford HealthCare ... this is “good hand hygiene.” The CDC noted that candida ...