One of my favorite iPod apps is for Stitcher, which collects podcasts that I might be interested in listening to. I must admit I favor either old time radio drama
This week, Food Safety News is acknowledging leaders who help keep our food supply safe. Today, we celebrate leaders at government agencies. Yesterday, we celebrated educators. In the days ahead
Several cases of diarrheal illnesses in northwest Missouri, possibly caused by Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and including at least one confirmed case of E. coli O103 are behind the
Shrinking budgets continue to make the country ill prepared to respond to health disasters, including foodborne illness outbreaks, according to the latest analysis by the Trust for America’s Health
Boots-on-the-ground epidemiology — including interviews, disease surveillance, and traceback — was key in helping health officials solve and control an 8-year salmonella outbreak, the longest in U.S. history, which was ultimately
Since 2008, local public health departments in the United States have lost nearly 40,000 employees, and the situation continues to deteriorate, according to the most recent survey, conducted in
The national hysteria over obesity has reached a crescendo this week, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosts the conference, “Weight of the Nation” in Washington,
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will delay a proposed rule to expand a controversial poultry inspection system, ABC World News reported in a scathing segment Wednesday.
The decision was
New research raises questions about whether poultry producers might still be using an antibiotic that was banned in 2005 after being linked to increasing antibiotic resistance.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins
Truth be told I’m like the Brent Spiner character. Not Lieutenant Commander Data in Star Trek, but as Dr. Brackish Okun in the 1996 movie Independence Day.
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Although preparedness for public health emergencies had been on an upward climb in the U.S. over the last decade, some of our most elementary capabilities are experiencing cuts in
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