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CDC will host a telephone-only media availability to discuss the new Vital Signs report on racial disparities in breast cancer severity.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing on Vital Signs Report on Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer - Media Advisory”
Get Smart About Antibiotics Week 2012 will highlight the threat of antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotic use nationally and globally.
Original title: “CDC announces release of important policy statement and national polling results on antibiotic resistance Get Smart About Antibiotics Week is November 12-18, 2012”
Get Smart About Antibiotics Week 2012 will highlight the threat of antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotic use nationally and globally.
Original title: “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week 2012 - Digital Press Kit”
CDC's VetoViolence - in partnership with the Administration of Children and Families (ACF) via the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and VAWnet, Prevent Connect, and the Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) - is hosting a Twitter Live Chat about this important issue.
Original title: “CDC Hosts First Twitter Live Chat on Intimate Partner Violence”
Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Original title: “CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Meeting”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , is investigating a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections among patients who received contaminated preservative-free MPA steroid injections from New England Compounding Center (NECC).
Original title: “CDC Responds to Multistate Meningitis Outbreak”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today issued the first "FluView" influenza activity report for the U.S. 2012-2013 flu season. The 2012-2013 reporting season began on September 30. The first FluView report shows that influenza activity is low nationwide. This season, FluView has new interactive visualization tools.
Original title: “CDC Releases First FluView Report for 2012-2013 Influenza Season”
CDC, FDA, and Massachusetts Department of Public Health hosted a telephone-only media availability to provide updates about the multistate investigation of meningitis among patients who have received an epidural steroid injection (medication injected into the spine) and joint injections.
Original title: “CDC, FDA, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Joint Telebriefing Updating Investigation of Meningitis Outbreak (Transcript)”
While HIV poses a serious health threat to all Latinos, different Latino communities are impacted in different ways. In conjunction with National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (October 15), CDC releases new data reinforcing that the epidemic among Latinos is as diverse as the community itself here in the United States.
Original title: “National Latino AIDS Awareness Day”
CDC, FDA, and Massachusetts Department of Public Health will host a telephone-only media availability to provide updates about the multistate investigation of meningitis among patients who have received an epidural steroid injection (medication injected into the spine) and joint injections.
Original title: “CDC, FDA, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Joint Telebriefing Updating Investigation of Meningitis Outbreak”
CDC and FDA hosted a telephone-only media availability to discuss information about the multi-state investigation of meningitis among patients who have received epidural steroid injections.
Original title: “CDC and FDA Joint Telebriefing on Investigation of Meningitis Outbreak (Transcript)”
CDC and FDA will host a telephone-only media availability to discuss information about the multi-state investigation of meningitis among patients who have received epidural steroid injections.
Original title: “CDC and FDA Joint Telebriefing on Investigation of Meningitis Outbreak”
The percentage of teens in high school (aged 16 or older) who drove when they had been drinking alcohol decreased by 54 percent between 1991 and 2011, according to a recent Vital Signs study.
Original title: “CDC study shows 54 percent decrease in teen drinking and driving since 1991”
CDC hosted a telephone-only media availability to discuss the new Vital Signs report on drinking and driving among high school students.
Original title: “Vital Signs: Drinking and Driving Among High School Students Aged > 16 Years - United States, 1991-2011”
The percentage of teens in high school (aged 16 and older) who drove when they had been drinking alcohol decreased by 54 percent between 1991 and 2011, according to a Vital Signs study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nine out of 10 high school teens (aged 16 and older) did not drink and drive during 2011.
Original title: “Press Release: CDC study shows 54 percent decrease in teen drinking and driving since 1991”
The percentage of teens in high school (aged 16 and older) who drove when they had been drinking alcohol decreased by 54 percent between 1991 and 2011, according to a Vital Signs study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nine out of 10 high school teens (aged 16 and older) did not drink and drive during 2011.
Original title: “Digital Press Kit: CDC study shows 54 percent decrease in teen drinking and driving since 1991”
CDC will host a telephone-only media availability to discuss the new Vital Signs report on drinking and driving among high school students.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing on Vital Signs Report on Drinking and Driving Among High School Students”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Million Hearts Initiative today recognized two practices for success in helping patients control their high blood pressure.
Original title: “Million Hearts Recognizes Health Systems' Success in Helping Patients Control High Blood Pressure”
Customers at drugstores around the nation can get help to improve blood pressure control, through a collaboration among pharmacists, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and other partners. The program, "Team Up. Pressure Down.," includes educational videos, a blood pressure control journal, and wallet card to track medication use.
Original title: “Million Hearts Launches New Educational Program to Improve Americans' Blood Pressure Control”
CDC and the Texas Department of State Health Services will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss updated West Nile Virus numbers and provide an update on the situation in Texas.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing on West Nile Virus Update”