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CDC will host a media telebreifing to discuss the new MMWR report on adult smoking cessation.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing: Quitting Smoking Among Adults - United States, 2001-2010”
The Million Hearts initiative has announced new partners and commitments, including tools to reach cardiology professionals and consumers to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
Original title: “New Million Hearts tools announced by partners”
DC will host a media telebreifing to discuss the new Vital Signs report on prescription opioid pain reliever overdoses.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing on Vital Signs Report:Overdoses of Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers - United States, 1999-2008”
The death toll from overdoses of prescription painkillers has more than tripled in the past decade, according to an analysis in the CDC Vital Signs report released today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “Prescription painkiller overdoses at epidemic levels”
Every 15 minutes, someone in the United States dies by suicide. And for every person who dies, there are many more who think about, plan or attempt suicide, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “CDC study shows suicidal thoughts and behavior vary among U.S. adults”
A media briefing to discuss the results of the FDA-led root cause investigation of the multi-state listeria outbreak related to Jensen Farms cantaloupe.
Original title: “FDA-CDC Telebriefing on Root Cause of Multi-state Listeria Outbreak”
CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing on a new study looking at the economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption.
Original title: “CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Meeting”
The cost of excessive alcohol consumption in the United States in 2006 reached $223.5 billion or about $1.90 per drink, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “CDC reports excessive alcohol consumption cost the U.S. $224 billion in 2006”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the initial "FluView" report for the U.S. 2011-2012 flu season with the message that flu activity is currently low, making this the perfect time to get vaccinated. There should be lots of vaccine available, because the supply is projected to set a U.S. record.
Original title: “CDC issues initial 2011-2012 seasonal "FluView" report”
The number of Americans who report they have coronary heart disease - which includes heart attack and angina (chest pain) - continues to decline but rates vary widely from state to state and by race and ethnicity, according to a new report published today in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “CDC reports uneven declines in coronary heart disease by state and race/ethnicity”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded nearly $6 million over three years to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to help hospitals nationwide make quality improvements to maternity care to better support mothers and babies to be able to breastfeed.
Original title: “CDC announces new effort to boost number of Baby-Friendly hospitals”
The percentage of teen males aged 15-19 years in the United States who used a condom the first time they had sex increased between 2002 and 2006-2010, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “More teen males using condoms”
Emergency department visits for sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, among children and adolescents increased by 60 percent during the last decade, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “CDC finds 60 percent increase in youth athletes treated for TBIs”
Adults drank too much and got behind the wheel about 112 million times in 2010-that is almost 300,000 incidents of drinking and driving each day-according to a CDC Vital Signs study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “CDC report shows about 112 million annual incidents of people drinking and driving”
CDC will host a telephone-only media availability to discuss the new Vital Signs report on alcohol-impaired driving among adults.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing on Vital Signs Report:Vital Signs: Alcohol-Impaired Driving Among Adults - United States, 2010”
CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing on a new study looking at the economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing on Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today launched a new effort to address childhood obesity.
Original title: “CDC takes new steps to combat childhood obesity”
CDC and FDA will hold a media availability on the ongoing multistate outbreak of Listeriosis linked to whole cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, Colorado.
Original title: “CDC and FDA media availability on multistate outbreak on Listeriosis”
Almost 70 percent of high school students are not getting the recommended hours of sleep on school nights, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published online by Preventive Medicine.
Original title: “Insufficient sleep among high school students associated with a variety of health-risk behaviors”
Surveillance for Waterborne Disease Outbreaks and Other Health Events
Original title: “CDC releases surveillance data on waterborne disease outbreaks”