Hey, great news, everyone. It's finally starting to warm up, which means it's almost time to open up those swimming pools. And we'd recommend you get to the pool quickly, before all of the other swimmers contaminate it with fecal bacteria.
Gonorrhea, one of the the smartest of all the bacterial STDs, is on the rise. And now, doctors who devote their careers to studying The Clap are warning that the disease could be completely untreatable sooner than the U.S. elects a new president.
Discovered: Fake weed gave lots of people kidney damage last year; the FDA approves artificial sight for the blind; engineering tires from flowers; flushed anti-anxiety meds are making fish jittery.
Timing is everything in the disease business, which is probably why the United States Centers for Disease Control waited until Valentine's Day Eve to announce that the United States is home to 110 million sexually transmitted diseases.
President Obama is looking at issuing 19 executive actions on gun control, and while gun enthusiasts fear a gun ban that can't happen by executive order, there is one proposal that should make the gun lobby plenty nervous: allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence.
Words like epidemic tend to get tossed around willy nilly whenever flu seasons get nasty. But the CDC confirmed Friday that what the U.S. is going through right now officially qualifies as an epidemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and health officials say that the 30-plus people who came down with a rare and deadly form of meningitis are linked by a steroid drug injection for back pain that may have been shipped to as many as 23 states.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that this year's west nile virus outbreak was the nation's largest ever, and suddenly it does seem pretty serious, if not downright scary.
"CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)." [Huffington Post]
A new report found that a third of teenage moms surveyed didn't use protection because, for one reason or another, they didn't think they could get pregnant.
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