According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a normal blood pressure reading is less than 120/80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg).This includes a systolic pressure reading (the ...

Typhoid Mary's tragic tale exposed the health impacts of 'super-spreaders' Tracking down the culprit behind an outbreak of typhoid fever in 1900s New York was a breakthrough in how symptom-free ...

In February 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed 2,807 cases of e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury (EVALI) and 68 deaths attributed to that condition.

Each time, the CDC determined they had misrepresented how they planned to use the data and kicked them out, The Wall Street Journal reported. At a 2015 conference, Geier spoke about it this way: “They ...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a significant and growing threat to public health worldwide. Nowhere is this challenge more pronounced than in the Caribbean, 1 where the burden of NCDs is ...

The answer is we now have more evidence-based protocols to treat early stage kidney disease to keep it from worsening. Identifying patients who have CKD, and placing the diagnosis on the chart’s ...

Digital health solutions like the use of a smartphone to transmit patient data in real time have empowered these workers to improve outcomes for children living with non-communicable diseases. Village ...

A Michigan woman living with sickle cell disease says her life may now be at risk after the CDC disbanded the team responsible for researching safe birth control for people with chronic conditions ...

Palantir’s systems, including those at the C.D.C., rely on a platform called Foundry that could merge information from different agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services, the Food ...

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the person who typically signs off on federal vaccine recommendations — was nowhere to be seen. The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency ...