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Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online When you pull out the barbecue this 4th of July holiday you may want to take a few extra minutes checking the surface of the grill for foreign objects that could pose serious risks to your health, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Health and safety experts around the country typically take it upon themselves this time of year to warn outdoor cooks of the dangers that may lurk...

Kick Off Summer Vacation With Five Simple Tips to Safely Store Medicines While Traveling As Americans Pack Their Bags, CDC and CHPA Educational Foundation Remind Families to Pack Medicines Safely, Too WASHINGTON, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With summer here and vacation season underway, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) Educational Foundation, in partnership with the PROTECT Initiative, today...

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In preparation for July 4th and the summer months when instances of food poisoning increase, the Ad Council and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, in partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are continuing their national Food Safe Families public service campaign, the first multimedia effort designed to raise awareness of the...

National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute and Datalys Center Announce Partnership Indianapolis, IN (PRWEB) June 22, 2012 The National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute (NYSHSI) and The Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention (Datalys Center) have joined forces to create a better environment for youth sports by furthering relevant research. At the recent annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, NYSHSI announced a Call to Action for a...

BOSTON, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Although breastfeeding is one of the most effective preventive health measures for infants and mothers, half of US-born babies are given formula within the first week, and by 9 months, only 31% of babies are breastfeeding at all. Breastfeeding rates are lowest among low socio-economic populations. To help reverse these trends, the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) today announced a first-of-its-kind effort...

Test diagnoses dengue faster using existing flu diagnosis equipment ATLANTA, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has developed a new diagnostic test to detect the presence of dengue virus in people with symptoms of dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever. The test, called the CDC DENV-1-4 Real Time RT PCR Assay, has been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States and can be performed using equipment...

NBCH, CDC and NSC research finds need for additional tools and resources to help employers improve health of employers and community WASHINGTON, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- While many U.S. employers are addressing obesity in the workplace, there is still much progress to be made as well as a need for tools and resources, especially among small and mid-size organizations, according to a survey more than 500 employers conducted by the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH),...

Demonstration project is expected to save Medicare program an estimated $4.2 million over 3 years and $53 million over six years. WASHINGTON, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- YMCA of the USA (Y-USA), the national office of the Y and a leading nonprofit committed to strengthening community through healthy living, has been named as a preliminary awardee of a Health Care Innovation Award by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). Y-USA is being funded to...

Visits to smoking cessation website up by more than 400,000 ATLANTA, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The "Tips From Former Smokers" national ad campaign has generated almost 200,000 additional calls to 1-800-QUIT-NOW, a portal that links callers to their state quitlines, and more than 400,000 additional unique visitors to www.smokefree.gov, a federal website designed to help people quit smoking, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today. Based on...

Increased use of clinical preventive services could save tens of thousands of lives ATLANTA, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Only about half of U.S. adults received selected preventive services such as screenings, consultations and prescriptions, from a health care professional before 2010, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, Use of Selected Clinical Preventive Services Among Adults - United States, 2007-2010, offers a...