Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
With winter temps coming, hypothermia can be fatal
It’s December. This time of year brings Christmas, New Year’s, bowl games, and a lot of parties. It also brings cold weather,...
Nonprofit group warns of increasing number of overdose deaths
A nonprofit organization's analysis of government data estimates drug overdose deaths increased 1.7% in 2023 to reach a new record high.
Alabama Public Health warns everyone to take extra precautions to prevent...
Temperatures are expected to be in the 100s across large parts of Alabama this week. While 93 degrees is hot, 101 degrees is much...
COVID-19 public health emergency will expire on Thursday
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) announced on Tuesday that the federally declared public health emergency for COVID-19 will expire on Thursday.
Alabama has the fifth-highest gun death rate in the U.S.
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that Alabama has the fifth-highest death rate by shootings. That includes murder, suicide,...
Steve Marshall joins letter urging the CDC to drop COVID-19 vaccine from child...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Saturday that he had joined eleven other attorneys general in a letter calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s...
COVID-19 vaccine has been included in the Vaccines for Children Program
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) announced on Friday that they are “aware of yesterday’s vote by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that the...
State attorneys general led by Louisiana’s Jeff Landry urge CDC to...
Attorneys general in a dozen states are urging the Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to reverse course on...
ADPH warns Alabamians to get their flu shot by Halloween
There were freeze warnings across the state on Wednesday and Thursday as nighttime temperatures plunged to below-freezing or near-freezing temperatures. Colder weather...
State health organizations urge Alabamians to get the flu vaccine
The Alabama Department of Public Health, the Alabama Hospital Association, the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama put...
