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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today announced plans to distribute $40 million to state health departments to help prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

On Friday August 28, 2009, CDC announced that births in most of the Gulf Cost areas hit by Hurricane Karina plunged in the 12 months following the deadly storm...

CDC will host a telephone-only briefing to provide an update on cases of 2009 H1N1 flu. The briefing will also include an update on NIH's clinical trials of candidate 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine...

CDC will host a telephone-only briefing to provide an update on cases of 2009 H1N1 flu. The briefing will also include an update on NIH's clinical trials of candidate 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine.

U.S. life expectancy reached nearly 78 years (77.9), and the age-adjusted death rate dropped to 760.3 deaths per 100,000 population, both records, according to the latest mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) media relations team has launched a new service for journalists.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supported study shows that Latino adolescents in the United States who maintain ties to their culture of origin are more likely to develop healthy behaviors than their peers who do not.

Secretaries Sebelius, Duncan, and Napolitano will host a press conference to release updated guidance for schools during the upcoming influenza season...

A team of scientists reported today the successful isolation of genetically diverse Marburg viruses from a common species of African fruit bat (Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus)...

Pregnant women infected with 2009 novel H1N1 had a higher rate of hospitalization and greater risk of death than the general population due to the H1N1 flu, according to a study in the Aug. 8 issue of the British medical journal Lancet...