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At least 38 million adults in the United States drink too much and most are not alcoholics. What are the latest findings and what can be done to reduce this behavior? CDC will discuss why alcohol screening and brief counseling are a health service that works to curve down alco...
CDC looks back on infographics with the most impact: Nightmare Bacteria spread and TIPS campaign results.
As the year comes to a close, America's health protection agency, CDC, looks back at our nation's health by the numbers. With dramatic breakthroughs in science and technology, 2013 has been a successful year in public health.
On December 16, 2013 CDC was informed by Merck that the company planned to implement a voluntary recall of one lot (lot J007354) of Gardasil® [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant], due to the potential for a small number of vials to...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely following new reports of the mosquito-borne chikungunya (chik-un-GUHN-ya) virus among residents of the French side of St. Martin in the Caribbean.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched a new project aimed at improving health data collection for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's job is to detect health threats, stop outbreaks, and prevent illness and injury. As 2013 comes to a close America's health protection agency looks back at top five health concerns in 2013 and previews the five health threats tha...
MMWR has exciting news about influenza and flu vaccinations and it is so important that people get vaccinated.
CDC, CMS collaborate to advance public reporting of important hospital quality indicators
CDC to provide an update on flu and vaccination activity this season and share new data on the impact of vaccination last season.
Flu vaccination prevented an estimated 6.6 million influenza-associated illnesses, 3.2 million medically attended illnesses, and 79,000 hospitalizations during the 2012-2013 flu season, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report in the Morbidity and...
A telebriefing to discuss the renewed spike of measles in the U.S. and its continued threat to health security.
Fifty years after the approval of an extremely effective vaccine against measles, one of the world's most contagious diseases, the virus still poses a threat to domestic and global health security.
Yesterday, President Obama reaffirmed the United States' commitment to an AIDS-free generation by signing into law the PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act of 2013.
Increased awareness and implementation of proper food safety in restaurants and delis may help prevent many of the foodborne illness outbreaks reported each year in the United States.
