A team of scientists reported today the successful isolation of genetically diverse Marburg viruses from a common species of African fruit bat (Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus)...

Original title: “Scientists successfully isolate Marburg virus from African fruit bats”

Pregnant women infected with 2009 novel H1N1 had a higher rate of hospitalization and greater risk of death than the general population due to the H1N1 flu, according to a study in the Aug. 8 issue of the British medical journal Lancet...

Original title: “Study Says Pregnant Women Are More Severely Impacted by Novel H1N1 Influenza Virus and Need Prompt Treatment with Antiviral Medication”

The health cost of obesity in the United States is as high as $147 billion annually, based on a new study from Research Triangle Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Original title: “Study Estimates Medical Cost of Obesity May Be As High as $147 Billion Annually”

New Vaccines Shift the Course of Childhood Diarrhea-Causing Disease and Could Have Big Global Impact...

Original title: “Discovery of New Transmission Patterns May Help Prevent Rotavirus Epidemics”

Arthritis may create an additional barrier to using physical activity to help people manage their heart disease, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Original title: “Arthritis Pain May Keep People with Heart Disease Physically Inactive”

Fortification of corn masa flour products could increase folic acid intake by nearly 20 percent for Mexican-Americans, who are at a 30-40 percent higher risk for a number of severe brain and spinal birth defects, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study is published in the January issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...

Original title: “Study Says Folic Acid Fortification of Corn Masa Flour Could Increase Folic Acid Intake among Mexican-Americans”

A new report from the nation's leading cancer organizations shows that, for the first time since the report was first issued in 1998, both incidence and death rates for all cancers combined are decreasing for both men and women, driven largely by declines in some of the most common types of cancer...

Original title: “Annual Report to the Nation Finds Declines in Cancer Incidence and Death Rates; Special Feature Reveals Wide Variations in Lung Cancer Trends across States”

Infants conceived with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) are two to four times more likely to have certain types of birth defects than children conceived naturally, according to a study by the CDC...

Original title: “National Birth Defects Prevention Study Shows Assisted Reproductive Technology is Associated with an Increased Risk of Certain Birth Defects”

CDC press release, dated Tuesday, September 9, 2008, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Effective for Treating Trauma Symptoms in Children and Teens.

Original title: “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Effective for Treating Trauma Symptoms in Children and Teens”

Women who receive a diagnosis of diabetes before they become pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with one or even multiple birth defects than a mother who is not diabetic, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Original title: “National Birth Defects Prevention Study Finds Pre-pregnancy Diabetes Increases Risk for Multiple Types of Birth Defects”

The risk of potentially devastating tears to an important knee ligament may be reduced in female college soccer players by an alternative warm-up program that focuses on stretching, strengthening, and improving balance and movements, according to a CDC study published online this week in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Original title: “Alternative Warm-Up Program Reduces Risk of ACL Injuries For Female College Soccer Players”

ATLANTA, Ga.-The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released results of a study suggesting that some North American avian influenza A H7 virus strains have properties that might enhance their potential to infect humans as well as their potential to spread from human to human.

Original title: “CDC Finds Some Bird Flu Strains have Acquired Properties that Might Enhance Potential to Infect Humans”

Mothers who smoke early in pregnancy are more likely to give birth to infants with heart defects, according to a study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Original title: “Smoking Early In Pregnancy Raises Risks Of Heart Defects In Newborns”

Rural Alaska Natives living without in-home access to running water have disproportionately higher rates of respiratory and skin infections, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Original title: “Study Shows Rural Alaska Natives without In-Home Running Water Suffer More Disease”

Greater investments in state tobacco control programs are independently and significantly associated with larger and more rapid declines ...

Original title: “New Study Shows Tobacco Control Programs Cut Adult Smoking Rates”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente's Northern California Division of Research launched a study to learn about an unexplained skin condition known as Morgellons...

Original title: “CDC To Launch Study on Unexplained Illness”

Increases in deaths among 20-to-29 and 45-to-54 year olds contribute to first overall increase in years

Original title: “New CDC Study Finds 5.5 Percent Increase in Injury Mortality from 1999 to 2004”

After a quarter century of increases, obesity prevalence has not measurably increased in the past few years but levels are still high

Original title: “A New CDC Study Finds no Real Increase in Obesity Among Adults; But Levels Still High”

Study establishes baseline for MRSA infection estimates

Original title: “CDC estimates 94,000 invasive drug-resistant staph infections occurred in the U.S. in 2005”

New England Journal of Medicine Telebriefing

Original title: “Early Thimerosal Exposure and Neuropsychological Outcomes at 7 to 10 Years”