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After decades of decline, progress has slowed in preventing stroke deaths. Almost 800,000 people have a stroke each year, more than 140,000 die and many survivors face disability.

Trends and opioid prescribing and how the amount of opioids prescribed to patients varies widely from county to county in the United States

Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: Update on Zika pregnancy outcomes in U.S. Territories

Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: EIS Conference

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.

Transcript and audio recording of World Polio Day Press Conference

CDC hosted a telebriefing on Zika

Two-thirds of American adults believe pharmacies should not be allowed to sell tobacco, while 14 percent strongly oppose such a policy, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

Initial data from a Liberian public health program show about 9 percent (38) of 429 male Ebola survivors had fragments of Ebola virus in their semen.

Two children have been diagnosed with polio in Nigeria, after two years without any polio recognized in that country. Polio is a terrible disease that no child should suffer.