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Surgeon General Regina Benjamin will host a press conference to release her first report on tobacco, A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease - The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease.

The U.S. government continues to lay the groundwork for efforts under the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI), announcing the first round of "GHI Plus" countries, as well as the program's governance structure.

Despite progress in some areas, smoking rates among U.S. adults remained stalled in 2008, halting the nation's progress in ending the tobacco epidemic, according to a CDC study.

The 2010 edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Yellow Book includes new or expanded sections on medical tourism, traveling safely with chronic diseases and conditions, and expert perspectives on popular travel itineraries

CDC will host a telephone-only briefing to provide an overall update on the novel Influenza A H1N1 virus and to discuss a recently published article in the journal Science.

The number of outpatient surgery visits in the United States increased from 20.8 million visits in 1996 to 34.7 million visits in 2006, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Age-adjusted death rates in the United States dropped significantly between 2005 and 2006 and life expectancy hit another record high, according to preliminary death statistics released today by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

The telebriefing will provide an update on the current influenza season.

Un n-mero estimado de 7,000 ni-os, de 11 a-os de edad o menos, son atendidos cada a-o en urgencias hospitalarias debido al consumo de medicamentos para la tos y el resfriado, seg-n un estudio de los Centros para el Control y la Prevenci-n de

A child born in the United States in 2005 can expect to live nearly 78 years (77.9) - a new high - according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2005."