Tag: CDC
Health: Opioid Litigation and the Alabama Settlement
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Last week Alabama reached settlements with three pharmaceutical companies whom it had accused of fueling the opioid addiction crisis. Drug distributor McKeeson Corp....
Health: Meliodosis
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Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that it has been investigating four cases if meliodosis in the U.S. This...
Health: The Changing Issue of Mask Mandates
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Last year, pre-vaccine, the public health establishment's dominant answer to the pandemic was "wash your hands, stay six feet from one another, wear...
Public Health Official Resigns over Tobacco Stock Trades
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Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, former Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, who was appointed by President Trump to head the Centers for...