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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

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

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 provide an overall update on the novel Influenza A H1N1 virus and to discuss a recently published article in the journal Science.

Exposure to alcohol is a known cause of birth defects...

2009 National Recreational Water Illness Prevention Week is May 18-24

The proportion of births to unmarried mothers in the United States has risen steeply over the past few decades, consistent with patterns in other countries, a report from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics shows.

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

CDC will host a press briefing to discuss an update in the investigation of cases of H1N1 Flu.

CDC will host a PHONE ONLY press briefing to discuss two New England Journal of Medicine articles by CDC authors on H1N1 Flu. The articles are title "Human Infections with Triple-Reassortant Swine Influenza A (H1) Viruses in the United States, 2005