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CDC will host a telephone-only media availability to discuss the new Vital Signs report on cigarette smoking among adults.

CDC's latest Vital Signs report finds a continuing need to raise awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - a daily pill that can prevent HIV infection - among those who are at substantial risk for HIV infection.

On Saturday, September 26, 2015, the David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, will open its doors from 10 am to 4 pm, as part of Smithsonian magazine's eleventh annual Museum Day Live! event.

The exhibit, Health is a Human Right: Race and Place in America, looks back through history at how minority groups have experienced health problems differently, helps us understand why these differences persist, and examines our efforts to reduce and

CDC cancer survivors are featured in the new exhibit, CANCER: Survivors in Focus, which highlights the public health impact of living with, through, and beyond cancer. The exhibit will be open June 17 through September 10, 2013. Several survivors

Scientists have discovered live Marburg virus in fruit bats in Sierra Leone - the first time the deadly virus has been found in West Africa.

More than 119,000 people suffered from bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus (staph) infections in the United States in 2017 - and nearly 20,000 died, according to a new Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC's National Center for Health Statistics today released Health, United States, 2017 - the 41st annual health of the nation report from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the President and Congress. This report includes an in

The number of people who died from gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestines that causes vomiting and diarrhea) more than doubled from 1999 to 2007, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC press conference to announce the start date for testing trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi for formaldehyde levels in trailers and mobile homes.