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The administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), R. David Paulison, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Julie Gerberding, will brief the news media Thuday at FEMA Headquarters in

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 79, Issue 8, Page 3127-3146, August 2023.

Over half of people in 10 states who died of opioid overdoses during the second half of 2016 tested positive for fentanyl, according to new data published today in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Early Release.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 532-540, February 2022.

CDC will host a media briefing to coincide with the latest Vital Signs release. The topic is teen pregnancy and effective birth control methods available.

Teen births continue to decline in the U.S., but still more than 273,000 infants were born to teens ages 15 to 19 in 2013. Childbearing during the teen years can carry health, economic, and social costs for mothers and their children. The good news

The percentage of people under age 65 in families having problems paying medical bills decreased from 21.7 percent in the first six months of 2011 to 20.3 percent in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from CDC's National Center for

Fewer U.S. high school students are engaging in health risk behaviors compared to their counterparts from 15 years ago, according to the 2005 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Credit May Go to Newly Introduced Infant Vaccine