In the last decade, more than 60,000 patients in the United States were asked to get tested for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) because health care personnel in settings outside hospitals failed to follow basic infection control practices, according to a new study by the CDC...

Original title: “CDC Study: Failures to Follow Infection Practices Have Placed More than 60,000 Patients at Risk for Hepatitis B and C”

Updated immunization recommendations for childhood influenza vaccinations are included in the 2009 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules released jointly today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)...

Original title: “Health Groups Release 2009 Immunization Schedules”

An estimated 55 million children and teens from birth to age 19 were treated in emergency departments for unintentional injuries from 2001 to 2006, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

Original title: “New CDC Report Finds Motor Vehicles and Falls are Causes of Most Child and Teen Injuries and Deaths in the United States”

Smoking in the United States Causes 443,000 Deaths Annually and Costs $193 Billion As Nation Observes Great American Smokeout

Original title: “New CDC Study Finds Community Physical Activity Programs Are Money Well Spent”

Smoking in the United States Causes 443,000 Deaths Annually and Costs $193 Billion As Nation Observes Great American Smokeout

Original title: “Slightly Lower Adult Smoking Rates”

Twenty-five thousand cases of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers occurred in 38 states and the District of Columbia annually during 1998-2003, according to studies conducted by CDC. ...

Original title: “CDC Releases First Estimate of Human Papillomavirus-Associated Cancer Data”

State-specific data provide glimpse into geographical differences...

Original title: “New Cases of Diagnosed Diabetes on the Rise”

ATLANTA -Employees, their families and people living close to 28 exfoliation sites may have been exposed to amphibole asbestos from vermiculite mined Libby, Montana between the 1920s and the early 1990s., a report from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has concluded....

Original title: “ATSDR Issues Report on Asbestos Exposure from Libby Vermiculite”

The number of young people who had a food or digestive allergy increased 18 percent between 1997 and 2007, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Original title: “CDC Study Finds 3 Million U.S. Children have Food or Digestive Allergies”

Teens are getting injured or killed by riding on the outside of a moving vehicle - an activity known as car surfing, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) review of newspaper articles released today in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Original title: “CDC Media Analysis Examines Car Surfing”

The United States ranked 29th in the world in infant mortality in 2004, compared to 27th in 2000, 23rd in 1990 and 12th in 1960, according to a new report from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

Original title: “CDC Releases New Infant Mortality Data”

CDC press release issed October 9, 2007, announcing the 2007 National Immunization Survey results for teens (NIS-Teen), that show the nation's immunization coverage rates for preteens and teens are increasing for routinely recommended vaccines, but most still do not have all of the recommended immunizations.

Original title: “Nation's Teen Vaccination Coverage Increasing, But Below 2010 Goals”

CDC campaign aims to draw attention to the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance

Original title: “It's Time to Get Smart about the Use of Antibiotics”

New Effort Teaches Parents How to Protect Children from MRSA

Original title: “CDC Steps Up Efforts to Fight Drug-Resistant Germ”

The vast majority of the nation's parents are having their children get recommended vaccinations, according to 2007 vaccine coverage estimates released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Original title: “Most US Parents are Vaccinating According to New CDC Survey Vaccine Coverage Rates for Children Remain High”

CDC press release on Thuday September 4, 2008 announcing new report estimates more than 2 million cases of tobacco-related cancers diagnosed in the U.S. during 1999-2004.

Original title: “New Report Estimates More than 2 million Cases of Tobacco-related Cancers Diagnosed in the United States During 1999-2004”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Julie Gerberding has been named to the Forbes List of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the world. This year marks the fourth consecutive year that Dr. Gerberding has made the list.

Original title: “CDC Director Named To Forbes List of 100 Most Powerful Women”

In an effort to help address a national shortage of veterinarians certified to work with laboratory animals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun a new residency program in laboratory animal medicine.

Original title: “CDC Launches New Program to Train Veterinarians”

CDC Press Release issued Thuday, August 21, concerning a CDC report about the recent measles outbreaks in Illinois, New York, Washington, Arizona, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, Hawaii, Arkansas, Washington, D.C., Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Original title: “Most U. S. Measles Cases Reported since 1996”

CDC press release about the release of an online storybook containing narratives, photos and videos from survivors, families and friends about the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed millions of people around the world.

Original title: “CDC Releases 1918 Pandemic Flu Storybook”