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77 Million Doses of Vaccine Supply Delivered, with Record Numbers Expected by End of Year...
Original title: “CDC Announces Weeklong Event to Focus on the Importance of Influenza Vaccination”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with a coalition of national partners, is launching a new phase of the "Learn the Signs. Act Early"...
Original title: “CDC Child Development Campaign Expands to Target More Than 400,000 Child Care Facilities Nationwide”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today launched a national public education and awareness campaign on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)...
Original title: “CDC Launches "Get Informed. Get Diagnosed. Get Help." Campaign”
Launch of new CDC campaign to increase awareness about chronic fatigue syndrome....
Original title: “CDC's Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Public Education and Awareness Campaign”
Dr. Howard Frumkin, director, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry...
Original title: “CDC and Consumer Product Safety Commission Warn of Winter Home Heating Hazards”
Growing up in a tiny town in rural Iowa, Nancy Cox dreamed of finding a way to combine her love of science with adventures traveling the world...
Original title: “CDC Influenza Expert Selected as Federal Employee of the Year”
New Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Health of People with Disabilities
Original title: “People with Disabilities Are Less Healthy than those without Disabilities”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today that influenza (flu) vaccine manufacturers are expecting to produce and distribute more than 100 million doses of influenza vaccines in the United States between now and early January, 2007.
Original title: “More than 100 Million Doses of Influenza Vaccine Expected To Be Available This Year Almost all providers should have some vaccine in October”
CDCs National Center for Health Statistics is issuing a new Health E-Stat today entitled Electronic Medical Record use by Office-based Physicians: United States, 2005.
Original title: “More Physicians Using Electrical Medical Records”
Fewer U.S. high school students are engaging in health risk behaviors compared to their counterparts from 15 years ago, according to the 2005 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Original title: “Fewer High School Students Engage in Health Risk Behaviors; Racial and Ethnic Differences Persist”
As of May 12, 2006, CDC has received reports of 122 confirmed cases, 15 possible cases and 60 cases still under investigation from 33 U.S. states and territories. 75 reports include insufficient evidence to classify them as cases or carry other non-Fusarium diagnoses.
Original title: “Fusarium Keratitis Update”
The report, from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, is the first-ever comprehensive look at birth and fertility rates among the growing U.S. Hispanic population, and contains detailed findings by state showing trends in births and fertility rates among Hispanics in the United States in 1990 and again in 2000. The data are based on U.S. Census Bureau information, which is collected every 10 years.
Original title: “Birth and Fertility Rates for States by Hispanic Origin Subgroups: United States, 1990 and 2000”
As of May 5, 2006, CDC has received reports of 102 confirmed cases, 12 possible cases and 81 cases still under investigation from 31 U.S. states and territories. 65 reports include insufficient evidence to classify them as cases or carry other non-Fusarium diagnoses.
Original title: “Fusarium Keratitis Update”
WHAT: 55th Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference WHO: The CDC Disease Detectives will present findings from recent investigations, including these: outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis among river rafters in the Grand Canyon,outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with a recreational water spray park
Original title: “CDC Disease Detectives Highlight Findings from Recent Investigations”
Diabetes and obesity have reached alarming rates in the United States. CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation and the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity are convening a national conference that will examine these issues and discuss ways to combat these illnesses through improving the environment, changing policies, building better health care systems, and helping individuals make lifestyle changes.
Original title: “CDC to Host First Diabetes and Obesity Conference”