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No Small Thing
The Poughkeepsie Journal series “No Small Thing” goes where no other newspaper or media outlet has – it challenges the mainstream medical dogma on Lyme disease. In rigorously documented articles, Projects Writer Mary Beth Pfeiffer concludes that the major actors in this public health scandal -- chiefly the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Infectious Disease Society of America – have minimized and mismanaged a burgeoning epidemic of tick-borne disease at great harm to thousands of infected people. These two powerful institutions have held – in policy and pronouncement -- that Lyme disease is easy to diagnose and easy to cure. It is neither.
Tags: Media coverage; public health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; CDC
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Federal Agencies Falling Short in Protecting U.S. Food Supply
The article explores the impact of America's fragmented outbreak response system, in which no states have the same foodborne illness reporting requirements.
Tags: CDC: foodborne illness; outbreak
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Hospital Regulations Let Formula Vie with Breast Milk
A new federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report says nearly 80 percent of U.S. hospitals give newborns formula when not medically necessary. The investigation compares how Chicago-area hospitals approach breast feeding and finds that some hospitals are not strongly encouraging it.
Tags: CDC; hospitals; breast milk; breast feeding; pregnancy
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Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?
"This exclusive, original investigation dug deep into the hype over H1N1, and the government's controversial decision to stop tracking swine flu cases in mid-summer. The swine flu was not nearly as prevalent as the government reported. In fact, the investigation revealed that the vast majority of illnesses attributed to the swine flu epidemic were not even flu at all." So, almost everyone who was diagnosed with swine flu didn't have it. The implications of the results are tremendous and have serious consequences.
Tags: Swine flu; H1N1; Centers for Disease Control; CDC; FOIA
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CDC Buries Toxic Warnings
"The Centers for Disease Control suppressed repeated warnings from one of its top scientists, raising questions about whether the CDC bowed to pressure from FEMA to conceal the long-term health risks of formaldehyde in the trailers it distributed to hurricane victims."
Tags: Dr. Christopher De Rosa; Ellmore Ohio; beryllium; health threat; poisoning; toxicology; environmental medicine;
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The CDC, FEMA and formaldehyde
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, people who moved into trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency almost immediately complained about the air quality in them. As complaints mounter, FEMA had an agent of the center for Disease Control conduct a test of the formaldehyde found inside the trailers. Joaquin Sapien explains why it took more than two years for the government to admit that formaldehyde levels in many of the trailers were high enough to increase the risk of caner and repiratory illnesses.
Tags: formaldehyde; Federal Emergency Management Agency; FEMA; Hurricane Katrina; Center for Disease Control; CDC; housing; FEMA trailers; air quality; environment; health
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Saving Babies: Exposing Sudden Infant Death in America
Hargrove, Hoffman, and Bowman reviewed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's records and found "inaccurate diagnoses of sudden infant deaths throughout America...The study found that states with multiple levels of Child Death Review boards are much more likely to detect infant homicides and accidental asphyxiations than states with little or no such review."
Tags: children; babies; death; mortality; CDC; beds; California; Florida; sleeping environments; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome;
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Following the Money: Earmarks and Waste
The series tracks and investigates "government waste and Congressional earmarks." It uncovered "NASA's extravagant parties, USDA assigning undercover agents to spy on Hemingway's cats, a Congressman spending your tax dollars on a monument to himself" and more.
Tags: money; federal spending; tax dollars; investments; earmarks; Congress; NASA; CDC; USDA; government
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Recipe for Trouble
The authors investigated the role of food establishment inspectors and Pennsylvania's broken restaurant inspection system.
Tags: public safety; food establishments; food poisoning; food establishment inspectors; CDC health reports; Department of Agriculture; FOIA; food-born illnesses
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Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic -- A Medical Controversy
Kirby investigates whether the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, which was used in an increasing number of childhood vaccines in the 1990s, led to the large number of cases of autism, ADD, ADHD and other childhood disorders that were reported in the United States during the same period.
Tags: public health; pharmaceutical; Thimerosal; FDA; vaccine; autism; ADD; ADHD; CDC; medical; neurological; mercury; Homeland Security; neurotoxin