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A study released today shows that benefits of a school-and community-based childhood obesity intervention program can spill over to parents, decreasing parents' body mass index (BMI).

The case fatality rate in West Africa's ongoing Ebola epidemic - estimates range from 60 percent to 70 percent of those hospitalized - hides a hopeful statistic: the fact that many Ebola patients survive. There now are thousands of Ebola survivors.

Despite the fact that sepsis affects more than a million Americans each year and kills up to half of them, a new survey published by Sepsis AllianceExternal Web Site Icon found that fewer than half of all Americans have ever even heard of the term

We are deeply saddened by the passing of a true public health hero, Bill Busse. By the age of 40, Bill had already endured kidney failure, blindness in one eye and a leg amputation because of poor circulation.

Latest vaccination coverage estimates for adolescents show only small increase for HPV vaccine

Forty years of data on a major cause of food poisoning now is available to the public, the food industry, and researchers in a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data, collected by state and federal health

The majority of pediatric Clostridium difficile infections, which are bacterial infections that cause severe diarrhea and are potentially life-threatening, occur among children in the general community who recently took antibiotics prescribed in

Approximately 5.6 million American children alive today - or one out of every 13 children under age 18 - will die prematurely from smoking-related diseases unless current smoking rates drop, according to a new Surgeon General's report.

A new analysis of data from 20 major U.S. cities reveals continued signs of sexual risk among gay and bisexual men, but shows dramatically lower sexual risk among those who accurately know their HIV status.

Statement from Tim McAfee, Director, CDC's Office on Smoking and Health on the passing of Nathan Moose, former Tips campaign ad participant.