Children in California, Oregon and Washington are more likely to develop autism if they lived in counties with higher levels of annual rainfall when they were 3 or younger, suggesting that something about wet weather may trigger the disorder, according to a study released Monday.
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One of the nation’s worst-hit cities for foreclosures in 2007 – Bakersfield – became an epicenter of West Nile virus that year largely because of mosquitoes breeding in abandoned swimming pools,
UC Davis and Kern County scientists reported Thursday.
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A federal health panel for the first time has singled out smokers for vaccination because of their high risk of infection from a pneumonia-causing bacterium.
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A controversial cervical cancer vaccine that has been only recommended for
U.S. residents has become a requirement for all new female immigrants ages 11 to 26, sparking an outcry over the order’s safety and cost.
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After a century of declines, the
U.S. infant mortality rate barely budged between 2000 and 2005, causing the United States to slip further behind other developed countries despite spending more on healthcare, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Fearing that the global economic crisis could cause nations to renege on commitments to fight tuberculosis, new Nobel laureate and
HIV co-discoverer Francoise Barre-Sinoussi warned that a drop in
TB funding could wipe out gains made against
AIDS because so many people suffer from both diseases.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention failed to act for at least a year on warnings that trailers housing refugees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde, according to a House subcommittee report released Monday.
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A genetic analysis of a biopsy sample recently discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has led researchers to conclude that the virus that causes
AIDS has existed in human populations for more than a century, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Although the overall
U.S. abortion rate is at its lowest level since 1974, the drop has been far more dramatic for whites than for African Americans, who in 2004 had abortions at five times the rate of white women, according to a report released Monday.
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California | Local |
By Mary Engel |
September 22, 2008
Like ambulances and blood transfusions, trauma centers – hospital units on standby to treat the most severe injuries – were born in the battlefield.
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