Topic: Thomas Frieden
About 15 percent of the U.S. population, or one in six Americans, has gotten sick from the H1N1,or swine flu virus this year, according to the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. In a briefing with reporters, Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the CDC, said there ...
An estimated 10,000 people including 1,100 children died of swine flu in the United States in the seven months after the new strain of flu was first detected in April, a top US health official said Thursday. "By November 14th, many times more children and younger adults unfortunately have been hospitalized or killed by H1N1 influenza than happens ...
Chocolate milk is "soda in drag" and should be booted out of US school cafeterias, a former celebrity chef turned school lunch lady has said. "If kids choose chocolate milk over white milk for an entire year they are liable to gain 2.5 to 3 pounds (1-1.5 kilograms) and over 10 years that's 25 to 30 pounds ...
