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Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012 - many more in some states than in others - according to a Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that highlights the danger of overdose.
Antibiotic resistance in foodborne germs, an ongoing public health threat, showed both positive and troubling trends, according to data tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2012.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $840 million to continue improving emergency preparedness of state and local public health and health care systems. These systems are vital to protecting health and saving lives during a disaster.
Overprescribing of opioid painkillers is a major cause of the prescription drug overdose epidemic in the United States. In 2012, health care providers in some states prescribed far more painkillers than those in other states. How can overprescribing of these painkillers be red...
Excessive alcohol use accounts for one in 10 deaths among working-age adults ages 20-64 years in the United States, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published today in Preventing Chronic Disease.
Today, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to recommend a preference for using the nasal spray flu vaccine (i.e., LAIV) instead of the flu shot (i.e., IIV) in healthy children 2-8 years of age when it is immediately available. ACIP is a panel of immun...
CDC hosted a media briefing to unveil its next installment of the successful Tips From Former Smokers campaign, featuring new health conditions. Tips From Former Smokers, a national tobacco education campaign featuring real people living with the harsh consequences of smoking ...
Business Pulse: Travelers' Health, launched today by CDC Foundation, provides businesses and corporate travelers a wide range of online resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help them better prepare for international trips.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching hard-hitting ads for its 2014 "Tips From Former Smokers" campaign. Beginning July 7, these ads will run nationwide for nine weeks on television, radio, and billboards, online, and in theaters, magazines, and newspapers.
The Million Hearts initiative announces the launch of a new Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Resource Center, developed in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Eating-Well magazine.
CDC announced today that approximately 75 Atlanta-based staff are being monitored or provided antibiotics because they may have been unintentionally exposed to live Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) after established safety practices were not followed.
CDC will host a media briefing to unveil its next installment of the successful Tips From Former Smokers campaign, featuring new health conditions.
After increasing steadily for nearly two decades, a new CDC report notes a slight decline in induction of labor for single births for gestational age group. Although the declines are very modest, going from 23.7 percent in 2011 to 23.3 percent in 2012, the news is encouraging.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now confirmed that neither of the two imported cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the United States spread the virus to any of their household members or to the health care workers who treated the two in...
CDC's Preventing Youth Violence: Opportunities for Action and its companion guide provide information and action steps to help community leaders and members, public health professionals, families, and young people to be part of the solution in preventing youth violence.
