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An estimated 43.8 million Americans had no health insurance in 2008, approximately 2.8 million more than in 1997...

Fractures most common injury; one in three injuries required hospitalization...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today unveiled LEANWorks!, a Website designed to help businesses address obesity. LEAN stands for Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition...

CDC will host a telephone-only briefing to discuss an update in the investigation of cases of novel influenza A (H1N1) as well as the MMWR report, "Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infections Among Health-Care Personnel - United States, April-May, 2009

Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)...

CDC will host a press conference to discuss an update in the investigation of cases of novel influenza A H1N1...

Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., today became the 16th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). He was named director of CDC by the White

The first-ever national estimate among a nationally representative sample of U.S. children revealed that 3 out of every 1000 children between the age of 6 and 17 in the United States have been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS)...

CDC will host a telephone-only briefing to discuss an update in the investigation of cases of novel H1N1 flu.

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.