Topic: Thomas Frieden
Experts fear antibiotic resistance puts humans in danger of becoming nearly defenseless against some bacterial infections. . The World Health...
America's waistline continues to widen.. . As of 2009, almost 3 in every 10 adults (26.7 percent) is now statistically obese, up from 25.6 percent...
People who smoke cigarettes and also use other forms of tobacco have higher levels of nicotine addiction, find it more difficult to quit using...
The U.S. Federal Government set a goal to have obesity rates at 15 percent or lower in 2010, but at the end of the first decade in the 21st...
While more Americans are being screened for colon and breast cancer than ever before, millions aren't getting the tests and thousands are dying...
The rate at which US teens are shunning smoking has slowed sharply, with health authorities calling for an advertising counter-attack to spur US high school students to stop or not try cigarettes, a study showed Thursday.After rising between 1991 and 1997
Ten thousand lives could be saved if more people were screened for colon and breast cancer, according to a new U.S. government report.. . "The...
Around 32,000 lives could be saved each year if people over 50 got regular colorectal cancer screening as recommended, the US Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday.The disease is the second leading cause of deaths in the United States after ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 10,000 people and possibly far more die in the United States each year because they have not been screened for colon or breast cancer, according to a government report released on Tuesday.But more people are being ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 10,000 people and possibly far more die in the United States each year because they have not been screened for colon or breast cancer, according to a government report released on Tuesday.But more people are being ...
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Sebelius, Health Officials, Hold Press Conference On H1N1 Virus
WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 17: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dicretor Thomas Frieden ...Getty Images - -
CDC Director Frieden Testifies On State And Federal H1N1 Response
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House Oversight And Reform Committee Holds Hearing On H1N1 Vaccinations
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden ...Getty Images -
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Fighting America's Obesity Epidemic - Thomas ...
Complete video at: fora.tv New York City Commissioner of ...2008-09-12 -
CDC Director Thomas Frieden visits UNC ...
More than 400 students, faculty, staff and visitors participated in ...2009-10-09 -
Dr. Thomas Frieden - Director, CDC & ASTDR
Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, became Director of the Centers ...2010-02-04
