For Immediate Release: May 3, 2011 Contact: CDC Media Relations (404) 639-3286 WHAT CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss the new Vital Signs reports on asthma prevalence. WHO …
As National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) 2011 kicks off Saturday (April 23), Dr. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory …
If progress of past 10 years continue all states could be covered by 2020 By 2020 or sooner, the entire nation could have laws banning smoking in all indoor areas of private sector worksites, restaurants and bars, a study by the …
For Immediate Release: April 5, 2011 Contact: CDC Media Relations (404) 639-3286 WHAT CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss the new Vital Signs reports on teen pregnancy. WHO …
Health care providers offered new recommendations for preventing the most deadly and costly healthcare-associated infections New guidelines outline steps to eliminate catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI), one of the most deadly …
Special feature highlights changes in brain tumor rates and survival Rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2003 and 2007, the most recent reporting period available, …
Public health departments can now strive for national accreditation more typical of universities and hospital systems. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is supporting a …
Affordable Care Act gives boost to currently funded state, tribal, local and territorial health departments to improve public health in the United States The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention increased its investment in …
ICUs show that preventing infections is possible; other health care settings must adopt prevention practices The number of bloodstream infections in intensive care unit patients with central lines decreased by 58 percent in 2009 …
For Immediate Release: March 1, 2011 Contact: CDC Media Relations (404) 639-3286 WHAT CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss the new Vital Signs reports on central line- …
Maternal cigarette smoking in the first trimester was associated with a 20 to 70 percent greater likelihood that a baby would be born with certain types of congenital heart defects, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and …
Ignition interlocks help prevent drivers who were previously arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI) from being re-arrested, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The researchers in CDC's …
WHAT CDC, NIH and PAHO will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss the latest developments in dengue virus research and the epidemiology of the disease in the Americas. The telebriefing, which is in connection with a …
Please Note the Need to RSVP WHAT Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) WHEN Wednesday and Thursday, February 23-24, 2011, from 8:00am to 5:30pm ET WHERE …
80 percent of adults with uncontrolled blood pressure or high cholesterol have insurance and availability to low cost effective treatment Two out of three U.S. adults with high cholesterol and half of U.S. adults with high blood …
For Immediate Release: February 1, 2011 Contact: CDC Media Relations (404) 639-3286 WHAT CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss two new Vital Signs reports on the prevalence …
Highlights progress and challenges in achieving health equity Americans' differences in income, race/ethnicity, gender and other social attributes make a difference in how likely they are to be healthy, sick, or die prematurely, …
For Immediate Release: January 4, 2011 Contact: CDC Media Relations (404) 639-3286 WHAT CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss the new Vital Signs report on nonfatal motor …
Today marks the half-way point in a remarkable journey for smoke-free air. At the start of the decade, there were no states in the U.S. with comprehensive smoke-free laws in workplaces, restaurants, and bars, and less than one percent of …
If you plan to travel to Haiti or the Dominican Republic for the holidays, the CDC urges you to protect yourself from cholera. Cholera has been spreading in Haiti and, to a limited degree, the Dominican Republic since October and November …
