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CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss the new Vital Signs reports on teen pregnancy.
Original title: “CDC Press Briefing on Vital Signs Report: Teen Pregnancy - United States, 1991-2009”
The age-adjusted death rate for the U.S. population fell to an all-time low of 741 deaths per 100,000 people in 2009 - 2.3 percent lower than the 2008 rate, according to preliminary 2009 death statistics released today by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. This marks the 10th year in a row that U.S. deaths rates have declined.
Original title: “US Death Rate Falls for 10th Straight Year”
Critical gaps exist between older Americans who receive potentially lifesaving preventive services and those who do not, according to a new report from agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Original title: “Older Adults Not Getting Recommended Preventive Services”
The number of cancer survivors in the United States increased to 11.7 million in 2007, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. There were 3 million cancer survivors in 1971 and 9.8 million in 2001.
Original title: “US Cancer Survivors Grows to Nearly 12 Million”
The number of bloodstream infections in intensive care unit patients with central lines decreased by 58 percent in 2009 compared to 2001, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report. During these nine years, the decrease represented up to 27,000 lives saved and $1.8 billion in excess health care costs.
Original title: “Infections in ICUs Plummeting, Too Many Remain in Hospitals and Dialysis Clinics”
CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss the new Vital Signs reports on central line-associated blood stream infections in intensive care units, hospitals and dialysis centers.
Original title: “CDC Press Briefing on Vital Signs Report: Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections”
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.
Original title: “Ignition Interlocks Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving”
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.
Original title: “Media Availability About Dengue Research Conference”
'Health, United States, 2010,' the 34th annual report prepared by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics is now available at www.cdc.gov/nchs. The report includes a compilation of health data from state and federal health agencies as well as an in-depth feature section on death and dying.
Original title: “Latest Report on Nation's Health Released”
Americans who live in parts of Appalachia and the South are the least likely to be physically active in their leisure time, according to estimates released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In many counties in those regions, more than 29 percent of adults reported getting no physical activity or exercise other than at their regular job.
Original title: “Highest Rates of Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity in Appalachia and South”
Two out of three U.S. adults with high cholesterol and half of U.S. adults with high blood pressure are not being treated effectively, according to the latest Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “Most Americans with High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol at Unnecessary Risk for Heart Attack and Stroke”
CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss two new Vital Signs reports on the prevalence of high blood pressure and high cholesterol among U.S. adults.
Original title: “CDC Press Briefing on Vital Signs Report: Prevalence, Treatment, and Control of High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol”
Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, an estimated 79 million U.S. adults have prediabetes, a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Prediabetes raises a person's risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Original title: “Number of Americans with Diabetes Rises to Nearly 26 Million”
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, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “CDC Report Documents Important Health Disparities, Need for Better Data”
Almost 6 out of 7 U.S. drivers surveyed report that they always wear a seat belt when driving or riding in a motor vehicle, according to a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “CDC Study Finds Seat Belt Use Up to 85 Percent Nationally”
CDC will host a telephone-only media briefing to discuss the new Vital Signs report on nonfatal motor vehicle-occupant injuries and seat belt use among U.S. adults.
Original title: “CDC Press Briefing on Vital Signs Report: Nonfatal, Motor Vehicle-Occupant Injuries (2009) and Seat Belt Use (2008) Among Adults - United States”
The birth rate for U.S. teens aged 15-19 years fell to a record low, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2009 birth rate of 39.1 births per 1,000 teens is down 6 percent from the 2008 rate of 42.5 births per 1,000. This is the lowest ever recorded in seven decades of tracking teenage childbearing.
Original title: “U.S. Teen Birth Rate Hits Record Low in 2009, CDC Report Finds”
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 respectively.
Original title: “CDC Recommends Precautions during Holiday Travel to Haiti”
About 48 million people (1 in 6 Americans) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases, according new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Original title: “CDC Reports 1 in 6 Get Sick from Foodborne Illnesses Each Year”
Release of two reports, Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States-Major Pathogens and Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States-Unspecified Agents, which are being published in an upcoming edition of CDC's Emerging Infectious Disease Journal.
Original title: “CDC Media Telebriefing on the Burden of Foodborne Disease”