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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have developed an improved method for analyzing outbreak data to determine which foods are responsible for illnesses relat...
Forty states have enacted laws prohibiting the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), including e-cigarettes, to minors, but 10 states and the District of Columbia still permit such sales, according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...
Early data suggests that the current 2014-2015 flu season could be severe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urges immediate vaccination for anyone still unvaccinated this season and recommends prompt treatment with antiviral drugs for people at high risk of...
The effort to contain the Ebola epidemic in Liberia is showing preliminary signs of progress in some counties, but maintaining and extending these trends will require sustained efforts, according to three early-release articles in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (M...
Almost 23 percent of high school students currently use a tobacco product, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued the first national Model Aquatic Health Code, guidelines that public pool operators can follow to help keep swimmers healthy and safe and that state and local health departments can use when they create or update public...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a series of updates and actions taken showing its progress in laboratory safety. CDC reported on its response to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) Agricultural Select Agent Program's (ASAP), p...
On July 1, 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) notified the appropriate regulatory agency, the Division of Select Agents and Toxins (DSAT) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that employees discovered vials labeled "variola," commonly known as sm...
Each year, the U.S. spends nearly $9,000 for the health of every American -- far more than what the governments of other countries spend on the health of their citizens - yet life expectancy and health outcomes are generally worse for Americans than for citizens of other devel...
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.
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...
This week's report on worldwide antibiotic resistance by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows the urgent need for a coordinated global response. The WHO report reinforces and extends globally CDC's call to action, Antibiotic Threats in the United States 2013. High rates o...
Transcript for the telebriefing announcing the release of "Incidence and Trends of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly through Food - Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, 10 Sites, 2006-2013."
Release of "Incidence and Trends of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly through Food - Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, 10 Sites, 2006-2013," which will be published in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Tobacco control efforts are having a major impact on Americans' health, a new analysis of lung-cancer data suggests. The rate of new lung cancer cases decreased among men and women in the United States from 2005 to 2009, according to a report in this week's Morbidity and Morta...
