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Nearly 70 percent of U.S. residents who get water from community water systems now receive fluoridated water, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with the U. S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have completed their joint

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Today, Connecticut became the 12th state in the country to raise its cigarette tax in 2009, as it increased the state excise tax on cigarettes by $1 to $3 per pack.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning healthcare providers and patients about the potential risk of infection from certain devices used during open heart (open-chest) surgery.

CDC continues to advise consumers and retailers not to eat, serve, or sell recalled Hy-Vee Spring Pasta Salad, which has been linked to a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections. Read the Food Safety Alert Update: https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella

Cases of a serious birth defect of the abdominal wall called gastroschisis continues to increase over time, according to a report in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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May is Asthma Awareness Month. Throughout May, CDC will feature new information and updates about the success of CDC's National Asthma Control Program with a special focus on children and adolescents by debuting facts sheets, an asthma awareness

More than 2.5 million people in the U.S.-nearly 7,000 each day-went to the emergency department because of motor vehicle crash injuries in 2012, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report. Not only do these injuries occur frequently, they are