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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Taco Bell Salmonella Alert

    According to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, but it should be renamed the "Year of the Salmon--ella outbreak and consequent civil suits."Too long?Two lawsuits due to salmonella poisoning have been filed against Taco Bell this year. The second lawsuit, also filed by Marler Clark, ... More >>

  • News

    March 15, 2012

    New law pits Florida tattoo artists against each other

    According to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, but it should be renamed the "Year of the Salmon--ella outbreak and consequent civil suits."Too long?Two lawsuits due to salmonella poisoning have been filed against Taco Bell this year. The second lawsuit, also filed by Marler Clark, ... More >>

  • News

    February 16, 2012

    Farmers' market fiasco: Miami-Dade Health Department squanders $15 million

    According to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, but it should be renamed the "Year of the Salmon--ella outbreak and consequent civil suits."Too long?Two lawsuits due to salmonella poisoning have been filed against Taco Bell this year. The second lawsuit, also filed by Marler Clark, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Miami-Dade Health Squanders $15 Million From Feds Meant to Bring Farmers' Markets to Town

    The First Lady has made healthy eating her priority, but her husband's stimulus package hasn't helped as much as hoped​Remember President Obama's stimulus package? The $787 billion bill was supposed to goose this country's ailing economy like a line of premium yeyo. Here in Miami, it was also book ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    MIA Among U.S. Airports With the Most Heart-Healthy Food, Report Says

    ​In our experience, trips to Miami International Airport are anything but good for our health. Between the stress of parking and getting through security to the greasy cheese pizza we shovel down before running onto a flight, every airport trip feels like it takes a year off our life.But according ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    Don't Let the Holidays Kill You: Eat Slow, Control Your Portions, Live Another Year

    ​The chain of holidays at the end of the year is good of an excuse as any to party up and overindulge, which also means you can plan to bring on the weight gain!Not so fast. Between the cookies, candy canes, pastries, egg nog and Yorkshire pudding, there's no question that holiday foods aren't the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Government Backs Off the Food Industry

    ​Anti-obesity lobbyists and children activists have been trying for years to get food companies to stop marketing high sugar, high sodium, and overall unhealthy foods to children.Food companies, such as McDonald's, General Mills, and others, create advertising campaigns that include cartoon charac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    The Tea Party Has a New Enemy in Florida: Water Fluoridation

    ​Despite being a common practice in developed countries for nearly 70 years and dubbed "one of the greatest public health achievements of the century" by the CDC, water fluoridation has joined the likes of Charlie Crist and Barack Obama as the latest enemy of the Tea Party in Florida. Tea Par ... More >>

  • Film

    September 8, 2011

    Contagion: Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head

    ​Despite being a common practice in developed countries for nearly 70 years and dubbed "one of the greatest public health achievements of the century" by the CDC, water fluoridation has joined the likes of Charlie Crist and Barack Obama as the latest enemy of the Tea Party in Florida. Tea Par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Miami Is One of America's Longest-Living Cities

    ​Miami residents, whether you love or hate this city, you might be around a few more years than average to either enjoy it or endure it. If you're a lady at least. The Daily Beast ranked America's top 20 cities with the greatest life expectancy, and Miami made the cut. But the news isn't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    16,650 Floridians Killed by Prescription Drug ODs in Six Years

    ​Tallahassee finally got around to putting an end to Florida's out-of-control pill-mill mania, and the move couldn't have come soon enough. New numbers released today show that deaths linked to prescription pill overdoses were up 61 percent between 2003 and 2009, and 16,650 Floridians were ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    15 Food Statistics That Should Make You Cry

    2 million: Dogs and cats abused and killed by the international fur industry each year -- including by the Burlington Coat Factory, which used to sell "Mongolian Dog Fur" that was made from domesticated dogs. Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).24: Number of cats it takes to make a fur coat i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Fifty Million a Year Become Ill from Eating

    Michael Batz, head of food safety programs at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI).​The University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) has named the foods commonly responsible for food-related illness.Contrary to what most people think, those huge outbreaks of con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Ten-Year-Old Florida Boy Commits Suicide After Being Sent to Room

    via Ten ConnectThe apartment where the little boy is believed to have committed suicide. ​A little after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the parents of 10-year-old Tyriq Ammons sent him to his room for misbehaving. Forty-five minutes later his mother went to check on him. She opened the door to fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Miami is One of the Angriest Cities in America

    You wouldn't like us when we're angry. ​Nothing pisses us off more than these statisically-flawed, silly little city rankings lists. Just in the past few weeks we've learned that Miami is one of America's most rude, vain, and miserable cities. Fittingly, Men's Health now tells us that when it come ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    First Recent Case of Cholera Suspected in Miami-Dade

    ​Miami-Dade already has cases of hookworm and dengue fever, and now health officials are investigating the possibility that a man with cholera might have entered the county. According to the Miami Herald, a doctor traveling from Haiti arrived at Miami International Airport around 6 p.m. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Foodborne Illnesses 101: Eat and Run (To the Bathroom)

    Nina Mathews on flickr Eat me at your own risk.​Last year it was peanut butter. Last month it was eggs. Who knows what food-borne illness outbreak will hit us this month. Seems like outbreaks are coming at us faster than New Jersey-based reality TV shows these days. But besides satisfying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Cook Diagnosed With Typhoid Fever at Chili's in Bayside

    Chili's cook had Typhoid Fever.​The heat is on in the kitchen of Chili's Restaurant at the Bayside location in downtown, and not because of the restaurant's namesake pepper. A Chili's statement confirmed that a former cook at the restaurant was diagnosed with typhoid fever earlier this month ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Surprisingly Sane: Miami Only Number 48 on Craziest Cities List

    ​We live in the weird news capital of the country, what sometimes goes on at city hall could be qualified as insane, and we're certainly home to more than a few out-of-this-world characters, but Miami isn't anywhere close to the craziest city in America. In fact, according to nonsci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Does Great Food Make Us Unhappy?

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its long anticipated happiness ratings last week. The study, using data collected from 1.3 million people across the country over the past four years, found that the happiest folks tended to live in states with a high quality of life. No surpri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    1 out of 3 Swine Flu Cases in Florida are in Miami-Dade

    We had our fun popping the balloon of the swine flu, excuse me, H1N1 hysteria, but we never once told you to abandon your hourly ritual of hand sanitizer cleansing. Since Miami is a major hub of international travel, especially to Latin America, it always made sense to us that the strain of flu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Swine Flu Confirmed in Miami-Dade

    via Ben Chau's flickrAfter a few false alarms, Miami-Dade can now be added to the list of counties with confirmed swine flu cases. Two cases were confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and the Florida Department of Health, one involving a 13 year-old girl and another a 47 year-old man. Id ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    False Alarm: Miami Swine Flu Samples Come Back Clean

    via SuperFem's flickrNews there were 20 suspected cases of swine flu in Miami-Dade was alarming, but it turns out none of those cases was the dreaded H1N1. Still, the Miami-Dade health department warns, "Samples continue to be sent from Miami-Dade County to the Florida Department of Health Stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Two Cases of Swine Flu Confirmed in Florida: One in Broward

    via FlickrIt's probably not time for a mask just yet, but stock up on the hand soap. Gov. Charlie Crist announced today that two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Florida: a 17-year-old teenage girl who attended Hallendale High School in Broward County and an elementary school boy in Lee Cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    No Worries: That lead-filled tap water is perfectly safe

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Run, Walk, or Skip for the Cause

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    Florida Most Dangerous State For Eating Out

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

    Documenting the Bi-Sexy Trend

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2007

    Food Critic Poisoned!

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2007

    Food Critic Poisoned!

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2007

    The ABC's of Restaurant Cleanliness

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2007

    The ABC's of Restaurant Cleanliness

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2006

    Buy More Art

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2005

    Night&Day

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2004

    On the Plus Side

    He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    Contagious Outbreak Untreated

    A rash of grotesque and dangerous staph infections among inmates gets no action from jail officials

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2003

    At the Viral Front

    The continuing war on HIV/AIDS

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Notes from the Dead Zone

    The politics of AIDS funding in black Miami

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Born to Lose

    Created after the 1980 riots, the Metro Miami Action Plan was supposed to level the playing field for blacks. What happened?

  • News

    January 15, 1998

    Lord of the Ring

    Boxing isn't just a hobby to Hank Kaplan. It's an obsession. Which is why he's the sport's foremost expert.

  • News

    October 16, 1997

    News of the Weird

    Boxing isn't just a hobby to Hank Kaplan. It's an obsession. Which is why he's the sport's foremost expert.

  • News

    March 30, 1995

    Sick Figures

    Funding cuts, allegations of fraud, and a marriage gone sour: La Liga Contra SIDA falls on hard times

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    60 Minutes of Controversy

    Funding cuts, allegations of fraud, and a marriage gone sour: La Liga Contra SIDA falls on hard times

  • News

    December 15, 1993

    Who's Abusing Who?

    Convicted eight years ago in the infamous Country Walk molestation case, Frank Fuster still maintains his innocence. Maybe now a judge will listen.

  • News

    September 15, 1993

    Man of Letters

    Bruce Gorcyca wants to warn everyone who may have been intimate with an HIV carrier. AIDS activists say there's nothing more deadly than the mail.

  • Music

    January 20, 1993

    White House Music

    A new president takes office and welcomes all to the error dome

  • News

    October 14, 1992

    Dead On Arrival, 119 Times Over

    Indonesian crab-eating macaques are favored by medical researchers. But if Miami primate dealer Matthew Block's late-August shipment was bound for the lab, it never got that far.

  • News

    December 4, 1991

    Letters

    Indonesian crab-eating macaques are favored by medical researchers. But if Miami primate dealer Matthew Block's late-August shipment was bound for the lab, it never got that far.

  • News

    November 20, 1991

    Monkey Feature

    Indonesian crab-eating macaques are favored by medical researchers. But if Miami primate dealer Matthew Block's late-August shipment was bound for the lab, it never got that far.

  • News

    February 6, 1991

    Black Death

    Indonesian crab-eating macaques are favored by medical researchers. But if Miami primate dealer Matthew Block's late-August shipment was bound for the lab, it never got that far.

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