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· Apr 4, 2017 3:18pm
Of the 250 pregnant women who had confirmed Zika infection in 2016, 24 - or about 1 in 10 of them - had a fetus or baby with Zika-related birth defects, according to a new Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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· Apr 3, 2017 3:16pm
A new CDC study published today in Pediatrics is the first of its kind to show that flu vaccination significantly reduced a child's risk of dying from influenza.
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· Mar 31, 2017 3:15pm
Overall cancer death rates continue to decrease in men, women, and children for all major racial and ethnic groups, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2014.
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· Mar 20, 2017 12:07pm
About one in four U.S. middle and high school students- nearly 6.5 million youths -report being exposed to secondhand aerosol from e-cigarettes at least once within the past 30 days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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· Mar 15, 2017 4:00pm
Business Pulse: Opioid Overdose Epidemic, launched today by the CDC Foundation, explores how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working to protect individuals from the widespread opioid overdose epidemic.
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· Mar 13, 2017 4:26pm
CDC has identified a potential risk of Zika virus transmission starting on June, 15, 2016, to present in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that also could affect risk for residents of Broward and Palm Beach counties.
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· Mar 13, 2017 2:40pm
CDC and FDA provide an update on potential increased risk of Zika virus in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.
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· Mar 10, 2017 2:16pm
CDC has updated its Zika travel guidance and now recommends that pregnant women not travel to any area where there is a risk of Zika virus infection, including areas where the virus has been newly introduced or reintroduced and local mosquito-borne transmission is ongoing; areas where the virus was present before 2015 (endemic) and there is no evidence transmission has stopped; and areas where the virus is likely to…
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· Mar 10, 2017 10:46am
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing spread of Zika virus?. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Maldives and Solomon Islands.
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· Mar 8, 2017 4:15pm
CDC is working closely with USDA APHIS and the Tennessee Department of Health to minimize any human health risk posed by the avian influenza outbreak in Lincoln County, Tennessee. This includes implementing a protocol to monitor the health of poultry workers exposed to commercial poultry involved in the USDA/APHIS-confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A (H7N9) outbreak. At this time, no human infection…
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· Mar 7, 2017 7:57pm
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Arthritis in America - Transcript
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· Mar 7, 2017 12:28pm
Arthritis limits daily activities of 24 million adults in the United States, making it hard for them to hold a cup, lift a grocery bag, or walk to their car. And, the percentage of adults limited by arthritis continues to get worse and has increased by about 20 percent since 2002.
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· Mar 7, 2017 12:25pm
More than 24 million adults with arthritis have activity limitations from their disease. The percentage of adults with arthritis who have activity limitations grew from 35.9% in 2002 to 42.8% in 2014, a significant increase of 20% overall and independent of the aging of the population.
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· Mar 6, 2017 9:03am
According to the latest CDC Vital Signs, more than 54 million US adults have arthritis - 24 million of whom are limited in performing daily activities.
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· Mar 3, 2017 11:59am
More adults are getting recommended screening tests for colorectal cancer, but not for breast or cervical cancers, according to data released today in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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· Mar 2, 2017 8:28pm
CDC, FDA, and several states are investigating an outbreak of 12 illnesses of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157:H7 reported from several states.
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· Mar 2, 2017 1:44pm
The proportion of Zika-affected pregnancies with birth defects is approximately 20-fold higher compared with the proportion of pregnancies seen in 2013-2014, which is before Zika was introduced into the Americas, according to an article published today in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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· Mar 2, 2017 8:30am
Users of a new, interactive web application can view and explore city-and neighborhood-level health data for America's 500 largest cities.
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· Feb 28, 2017 1:00pm
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has completed its examination of the quality of the air that comes through breathing hoses used by laboratory scientists working in its Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) labs.
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· Feb 24, 2017 9:51am
CDC, in collaboration with the CDC Foundation, will convene a two-day meeting February 27-28, 2017, to exchange facts and information about options and methods for monitoring and controlling Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and to reduce the burden of illness in people from Zika and other diseases transmitted by this mosquito.
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· Feb 17, 2017 2:16pm
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun a review of air quality associated with the use of air hoses attached to protective suits worn in its Biosafety Level-4 labs. There is no known exposure to hazardous pathogens or contaminated air within the labs, and the air used in these hoses has already been filtered for pathogens using HEPA filters.
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· Feb 17, 2017 11:48am
A new CDC museum exhibit, Then & Now: Reinventing Quarantine for Globalization, presents the untold story - contrasting the Then and Now - of reinventing the CDC Quarantine Program for an increasingly globalized world.
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· Feb 8, 2017 8:47pm
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Too loud! For Too long!
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· Feb 7, 2017 12:49pm
Unless your hearing is tested, it's really hard to know if it's damaged. That's the message of a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey that found about one in four U.S. adults who say their hearing is good or excellent actually have hearing damage.
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· Feb 6, 2017 12:05pm
According to the latest CDC Vital Signs report, many adults don't hear as well as they think they do. About 40 million Americans ages 20 to 69 have hearing loss in one or both ears. Being around too much loud noise-like using a leaf blower or going to loud concerts - can cause permanent hearing loss.
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· Jan 20, 2017 11:32am
Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working with the Illinois Department of Health and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to investigate cases of Seoul virus infections among eight people who worked at several rat-breeding facilities in the two states.
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· Jan 19, 2017 1:16pm
A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine provides compelling evidence that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) is spread from person-to-person in the KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa from 2011-2014.
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· Jan 17, 2017 2:56pm
CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announces the availability of a new mobile application (app) for iOS devices that will measure sound levels in the workplace to help workers learn about their noise exposure and reduce the chances of hearing loss.
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· Jan 12, 2017 12:55pm
A new CDC study demonstrates that Americans living in rural areas are more likely to die from five leading causes than their urban counterparts.
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· Jan 11, 2017 4:00pm
Strategies for Recess in Schools identifies 19 effective strategies schools can implement to increase student physical activity and academic achievement
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· Jan 11, 2017 2:10pm
What approaches from the Indian Health Service can be applied to other populations to reduce kidney failure and prevent diabetes deaths?
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· Jan 10, 2017 2:27pm
Remarkable progress made reducing kidney failure from diabetes in Native American populations. Federal data show diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults (American Indians/Alaskan Natives) decreased 54 percent between 1996 and 2013.
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· Jan 10, 2017 2:11pm
Federal data show diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults (American Indians/Alaskan Natives) decreased 54 percent between 1996 and 2013.
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· Jan 10, 2017 9:28am
What approaches from the Indian Health Service can be applied to other populations to reduce kidney failure and prevent diabetes deaths?
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· Jan 10, 2017 5:00am
Remarkable progress made reducing kidney failure from diabetes in Native American populations. Federal data show diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults (American Indians/Alaskan Natives) decreased 54 percent between 1996 and 2013.
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· Jan 9, 2017 11:17am
CDC's Tips From Former Smokers campaign will be back on the air for at least 20 weeks in 2017. The 15- and 30-second ads will run nationally on cable and network television and online, supported by print versions.
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· Dec 30, 2016 11:48am
Seventy years after CDC was founded to fight mosquitoes that carried malaria, CDC found itself entrenched in combat with another mosquito-borne illness, Zika virus.
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· Dec 22, 2016 11:32am
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today it is awarding nearly $184 million in funding to states, territories, local jurisdictions, and universities to support efforts to protect Americans from Zika virus infection and associated adverse health outcomes, including microcephaly and other serious birth defects.
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· Dec 16, 2016 2:07pm
Drug overdose deaths, including opioid overdose deaths, continue to increase in the United States, according to new data published today in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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· Dec 15, 2016 10:45am
In a new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, CDC scientists used preliminary data from the US Zika Pregnancy Registry (USZPR) to estimate that 6 percent of completed pregnancies following Zika virus infection were affected by one or more birth defects potentially related to Zika virus infection during pregnancy.
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· Dec 14, 2016 6:30pm
CDC has issued Zika-related travel and testing guidance for Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, following reports from Texas public health officials of five cases spread locally by mosquitoes. This information suggests that there may be a risk of continued spread of Zika virus and therefore pregnant women are at some risk for Zika virus infection. CDC is designating the city of Brownsville as a Zika cautionary area …
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· Dec 14, 2016 12:18pm
The health threats of 2016 came in all sizes, ranging from drug-resistant superbugs to Zika-carrying mosquitoes to a powerful hurricane. In a digital press kit released today, CDC highlights key agency activities during 2016 and previews what could come in 2017.
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· Dec 13, 2016 2:58pm
Zika virus can make thousands of copies of itself in fetuses' brains and in the placentas of pregnant women, which may help explain how the virus causes devastating birth defects and pregnancy losses even if a woman had only a minor illness.
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· Dec 9, 2016 3:50pm
As of early November, only about 2 out of 5 people in the United States reported having gotten this season's flu vaccine, yet flu vaccine offered substantial benefit last season by preventing an estimated 5 million flu illnesses and 71,000 flu hospitalizations.
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· Dec 9, 2016 2:09pm
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated guidance for people who travel to or live in the previously identified area of South Miami Beach, FL. This area is no longer considered to be an area of active Zika virus transmission (red area). It is now designated as a Zika cautionary area (yellow area). There have been no new cases of local Zika virus transmission identified in South Miami Beach fo…
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· Dec 9, 2016 2:04pm
Colombia has experienced a 4-fold increase overall in microcephaly following the Zika virus outbreak in 2016, according to a study published today in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. This preliminary report on Zika virus disease and microcephaly in Colombia demonstrates that an increase in microcephaly is not specific to Brazil. This finding confirms that countries with Zika virus outbreaks are likel…
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· Dec 5, 2016 1:14pm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released the final report on the Winnable Battles program, an effort to make the biggest health impact for the most Americans in the shortest time.
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· Dec 2, 2016 11:01am
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated Zika guidance for people who travel to or live in the previously identified 1-square-mile area of Little River in Miami-Dade County, FL.
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· Nov 30, 2016 5:15am
CDC hosted a telebriefing for Vital Signs on HIV and injection drug use..
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· Nov 29, 2016 2:02pm
Use of syringe services programs (SSPs) has increased substantially during the past decade, but most people who inject drugs still don't always use sterile needles, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report published today.
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· Nov 28, 2016 5:12pm
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been informed by Texas health officials that Zika virus infection has been diagnosed in a resident of Brownsville, Texas, without any other known risk factors, suggesting possible local transmission of Zika virus infection.
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· Nov 28, 2016 12:57pm
One consequence of the nation's devastating opioid epidemic is the increased risk of HIV and hepatitis B and C transmission through unsafe injection drug use. Syringe services programs (SSPs) can greatly reduce that risk.
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· Nov 22, 2016 3:38pm
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated guidance for people who travel to or live in the previously identified 4.5-square-mile area in Miami Beach, FL. The North Miami Beach-designated area is no longer considered to be an area of active Zika virus transmission (red area).
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· Nov 22, 2016 3:38pm
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated guidance for people who travel to or live in the previously identified 4.5-square-mile area in Miami Beach, FL. The North Miami Beach-designated area is no longer considered to be an area of active Zika virus transmission (red area).
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· Nov 22, 2016 11:55am
CDC researchers in collaboration with researchers from the United States and Brazil investigated the first series of infants with laboratory evidence of congenital Zika virus infection documented to have onset of microcephaly after birth.
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· Nov 21, 2016 1:03pm
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing spread of Zika virus?. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Montserrat. CDC has issued travel notices (level 2, "practice enhanced precautions") for people traveling to destinations with Zika.
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· Nov 18, 2016 8:10am
The number of potentially preventable deaths - premature deaths that could have been avoided - declined from 2010 to 2014 for three of the five leading causes of death in the Unites States, CDC researchers estimate.
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· Nov 17, 2016 4:02pm
Obesity among low-income children (ages 2-4 years) enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) decreased from 15.9 percent in 2010 to 14.5 percent in 2014.
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· Nov 17, 2016 3:30pm
Obesity among low-income children (aged 2-4 years) enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) decreased from 15.9 percent in 2010 to 14.5 percent in 2014.
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· Nov 16, 2016 4:27pm
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing spread of Zika virus?. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Palau. CDC has issued travel notices (level 2, "practice enhanced precautions") for people traveling to destinations with Zika.
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