Posts tagged cdc

• Morgellons Disease: CDC Says Weird Skin Disease is Probably Mental Delusion

  David Mittleman | January 26, 2012 8:42 AM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Morgellons disease is a very strange condition characterized by brightly colored fibers that seem to appear out of nowhere underneath affected individuals' skin, as well as pain and lesions....

• Baby Formula under Investigation in Death of Ten-Day-Old Baby

  Mark Bello | December 23, 2011 4:18 PM | 0 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  If parents of newborns don’t have enough to worry about, something else has now been added to the list. After a ten-day-old baby boy died from a rare bacterial infection known as...

• Brain-Eating Ameba Takes the Lives of Two More

  Mark Bello | December 20, 2011 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  In August, a sixteen-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy died in separate incidents from meningitis after contracting Naegleria, a microscopic ameba (single-celled living organism) that can...

• Prescription Painkiller Deaths Triple in Past Decade

  David Mittleman | November 03, 2011 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  According to recent reports, deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses are on the rise. In fact, a new government reports shows that overdose deaths have tripled over the past decade, with about...

• DEA and Local Police Departments Take Expired Prescription Drugs to Stem Illegal Use

  David Mittleman | October 23, 2011 11:34 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  If you're like other Americans, your medicine cabinet might be filled with bottles of unused and potentially expired prescription drugs. Unfortunately, having old prescription medications in your...

• Flu Shot Myths Debunked

  David Mittleman | October 22, 2011 10:00 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  It's getting to be that time of year again where more people are sniffling and coughing...and we all know what that means, flu season. You may be trying to decide whether or not to get a flu shot...

• Number of Deaths from Listeria Outbreak Expected to Rise Through October

  David Mittleman | September 29, 2011 8:18 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  While E. coli and Salmonella are more commonly known bacteria, a new food borne illness is spreading and creating more serious consequences than these two contaminants. Listeria, linked to...

• Two Children Killed by a Fresh-Water Parasite

  Mark Bello | August 17, 2011 9:39 PM | 3 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  This video is a special health warning report on a parasite known as the brain-eating amoeba which claimed its second young victim this month. Naegleria is a microscopic ameba (single-celled...

• Superbug Strain of Gonorrhea Discovered in Japan

  David Mittleman | July 31, 2011 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  At one point in time, doctors were able to treat and cure Gonorrhea with Penicillin. However, Gonorrhea is notoriously resistant to antibiotics, and over the years doctors have upped the ante to...

• CDC Expects Number of Consumers Affected by Salmonella-Contaminated Eggs to Grow

  David Mittleman | August 20, 2010 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Earlier this month an Iowa egg manufacturer issued a voluntary recall of millions of eggs contaminated with Salmonella. As a result of the contaminated eggs, the Centers for Disease Control have...