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The Puerto Rico Department of Health reported today the first locally acquired case of Zika virus infection in Puerto Rico. Zika was confirmed in a resident of Puerto Rico with no known travel history.
Original title: “First case of Zika virus reported in Puerto Rico - Media Statement”
In a digital press kit released today, CDC reviews the most pressing public health challenges of 2015 and previews plans for 2016.
Original title: “CDC Year in Review: What's Next? - Press Release”
From 2000 to 2014 nearly half a million Americans died from drug overdoses. Opioid overdose deaths, including both opioid pain relievers and heroin, hit record levels in 2014, with an alarming 14 percent increase in just one year, according to new data published today in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Original title: “Drug overdose deaths hit record numbers in 2014 - Press Release”
More than a third of American adults are eligible to take cholesterol-lowering medications under the current guidelines or were already taking them - but nearly half of them are not, according to a report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers published in the current issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Original title: “Half of those who need them not taking cholesterol-lowering medications - Press Release”
New CDC estimates underscore the need to increase awareness of a daily pill that can prevent HIV infection
Original title: “Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: Daily Pill Prevents HIV - Transcript”
A new Vital Signs report published today estimates that 25 percent of sexually active gay and bisexual adult men, nearly 20 percent of adults who inject drugs, and less than 1 percent of heterosexually active adults are at substantial risk for HIV infection and should be counseled about PrEP, a daily pill for HIV prevention.
Original title: “New CDC estimates underscore the need to increase awareness of a daily pill that can prevent HIV infection - Press Release”
CDC's latest Vital Signs report finds a continuing need to raise awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - a daily pill that can prevent HIV infection - among those who are at substantial risk for HIV infection.
Original title: “Daily Pill Prevents HIV - Reaching People Who Could Benefit From PrEP”
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is one essential component in the nation's high-impact prevention strategy for HIV. Many people at very high risk for HIV infection are not getting PrEP and not enough primary health care providers know about it.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report When is a daily pill the right option to prevent HIV? - Media Advisory”
Business Pulse: Workplace Safety and Health, launched today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation, focuses on innovative employer strategies using science-based solutions from CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to address emerging worker safety and health issues and well-recognized workplace hazards and exposures.
Original title: “CDC Foundation's New Business Pulse Focuses on Workplace Safety - Media Advisory”
The number of cancer survivors - people who live after a cancer diagnosis - is expected to grow substantially over the next few decades as the U.S. population ages and as early detection methods and treatments continue to improve.
Original title: “CDC responds to broad challenges facing US cancer survivors - Press Release”
GET SMART ABOUT ANTIBIOTICS WEEK, an annual one-week observance starting on Monday, November 16, raises awareness of the threat of antibiotic resistance and the importance of improving antibiotic use.
Original title: “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week 2015 - Digital Press Kit”
The President has proclaimed Nov. 16-22 "Get Smart About Antibiotics Week." Get Smart Week builds on the momentum generated at the White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship, where more than 150 organizations pledged to improve antibiotic use and slow the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Original title: “More than 120 Partners Join CDC to Fight Antibiotic Resistance - Press Release”
American adults who are uninsured or on Medicaid smoke at rates more than double those for adults with private health insurance or Medicare, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Original title: “Smoking rates for uninsured and adults on Medicaid more than twice those for adults with private health insurance - Press Release”
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Original title: “World Health Organization Declares Sierra Leone Free of Ebola Virus Transmission - Media Statement”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with federal, professional, and non-profit organizations, has developed a set of resources called Parents for Healthy Schools. School groups such as parent-teacher associations and school wellness committees can use the materials to engage parents in creating healthy school environments.
Original title: “New 'Parents for Healthy Schools' Website - Media Advisory”
Multistate foodborne disease outbreaks sicken thousands, highlight need for action
Original title: “Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: Safer Food Saves Lives - Transcript”
To identify best practices and to increase use of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated blood clots, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched a challenge designed to find, honor and recognize hospitals, multi-hospital systems, hospital networks, and managed care organizations that have implemented innovative and effective prevention strategies or interventions.
Original title: “CDC challenge: Find better ways to prevent healthcare-associated blood clots - Press Release”
Multistate outbreaks cause more than half of all deaths in foodborne disease outbreaks despite accounting for only a tiny fraction (3 percent) of reported outbreaks in the United States, according to a new Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Original title: “Multistate foodborne disease outbreaks sicken thousands, highlight need for action - Press Release”
Millions of Americans get sick from foodborne germs each year. Most foodborne outbreaks occur among small groups in a local setting. Outbreaks that make people in more than one state sick with the same germ are less common but more severe.
Original title: “Safer Food Saves Lives”
Multistate outbreaks caused 56% of deaths in all reported foodborne outbreaks from 2010 to 2014, although they accounted for just 3% of all such outbreaks from 2010 to 2014. What can the government and the food industry do to protect the public's health and stop outbreaks from happening?
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - How can the government and the food industry prevent multistate foodborne outbreaks? - Media Advisory”