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Obama picks New Yorker to head CDC

May. 15, 2009
President Obama has chosen Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, New York City's health commissioner, to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House said Friday.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Most sexual assault programs focus on repeated sexual victimization, but U.S. government programs try to prevent violence before it occurs, officials said.

Disease Control Centers chief quitting

ATLANTA, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, says she is leaving her post to make way for President-elect Barack Obama's team.
Influenza third leading cause of NYC death

Influenza third leading cause of NYC death

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Influenza and its potential complication pneumonia are the third leading cause of death in New York City, but preventable with a flu shot, officials said.

TB at all-time U.S. low

NEW YORK, March 24 (UPI) -- Tuberculosis has hit historic lows in the United States, but public health authorities say there's an increase in TB cases resistant to several drugs.

CDC announces major reorganization

ATLANTA, April 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added four coordinating centers and two national offices as part of a major reorganization.

CDC lifts ban on Chinese adoptions

ATLANTA, June 4 (UPI) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has lifted its ban on adoptions from the Zhuzhou Child Welfare Institute in China's Hunan Province.

N.M. man in NYC has bubonic plague

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A man visiting New York City from New Mexico has been hospitalized with bubonic plague, the first such case in the city in a century, health officials said Wedn

Anthrax investigator named head of CDC

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Interim CDC head faces budget questions

WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- House Appropriations Committee members Thursday peppered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's acting director with sometimes hostile queries regarding the Bush administration's 2003 budget request for the agency. Topics faced by Dr. David Flem
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch