Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) news and information

The Educare early childhood center, a Head Start preschool on Chicago's South Side, opened over a decade ago inside crime-ridden Robert Taylor Homes housing project.
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You can lead college students to soap and water, but you can't make them wash their hands. In fact, you can't even make them read their e-mail.That was one takeaway from an outbreak of pneumonia at Georgia Tech last fall that sickened at least 83 students—"the largest (outbreak) reported at a...
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In an unusual collaboration, laboratory services provider Quest Diagnostics is opening up its database of lab results to work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a research program on hepatitis C focused on baby boomers, whose members account for roughly two-thirds of the 3.2...
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On a recent business trip, I grabbed a copy of the in-flight magazine and was surprised by a tease on the cover for an article inside: “ADHD in Adults.”
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The CDC calls its mini-reports "VitalSigns." Here is something from their latest:
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hinted at promising news on the obesity front last week. The CDC's annual survey of the health status of Americans revealed obesity rose in 2012 at its slowest pace in a decade and, statistically speaking, may not have risen at all. Some experts said...
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Obesity is still rising, but at a slower pace, which some experts say may be a sign people are finally responding to a smattering of policy initiatives and an outpouring of national concern.
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New estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that last year more than 91 million people—including children—lacked health insurance for part or all of 2012, representing 29.7% of the U.S. population. That's compared with 30.4% the prior year.
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Researchers say a vaccine for a sexually spread virus has cut infections in teen girls by half. This is the first evidence of how well the HPV vaccine works since it came on the market seven years ago.
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Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says. Last year, about 18% of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers.
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