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The vast majority of parents are making sure that their children get vaccinated against potentially serious diseases, according to data from CDC's 2013 National Immunization Survey (NIS) - Children (19-35 months) published in this week's Morbidity

CDC has returned a staff member from West Africa by charter flight after the employee had low-risk contact with an international health worker who recently tested positive for Ebola.

More than a quarter of a million youth who had never smoked a cigarette used electronic cigarettes in 2013, according to a CDC study published in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

CDC is heartened to learn that the two U.S. citizens treated at Emory University Hospital for Ebola have been discharged from the hospital and can rejoin their families and communities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today launched a challenge designed to identify practices, clinicians and health systems that have successfully worked with patients to reduce high blood pressure and improve heart health.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a series of updates and actions taken showing its progress in laboratory safety. CDC reported on its response to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) Agricultural

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now has more than 50 disease detectives and other highly trained experts battling Ebola on the ground in West Africa - successfully deploying in less than two weeks the surge of help it promised within

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.

More than 4.3 million women with limited access to health care received breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services in the first 20 years of the CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rapidly increasing its ongoing efforts to curb the expanding West African Ebola outbreak and deploying staff to four African nations currently affected: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and