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An estimated 5 percent of the Key West, Fla., population-over 1,000 people'showed evidence of recent exposure to dengue virus in 2009, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Florida Department of

Rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2003 and 2007, the most recent reporting period available, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. The report

Death rates from all cancers combined for men, women, and children continued to decline in the United States between 2004 and 2008, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2008. The overall rate of new cancer

Reported NNDSS pertussis cases: 1922-2011 [PDF - 108KB]

New data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that reported annual cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States continued to climb in 2019, reaching an all-time high for the sixth consecutive

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.

The US is estimated to need 3.9 billion N95 masks to care for patients with COVID-19. As of March 3, the number of N95 masks in the United States stockpile was 35 million, accounting for less than 1% of estimated need.1 Hospitals are also limited in

In the United States in 2010 there were approximately 51.4 million inpatient surgical procedures and an even larger number of invasive medical procedures.1 For example, there were over 6.9 million upper gastrointestinal (GI), 11.5 million lower GI

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 1464-1475, April 2023.

Nearly half of voters cast absentee ballots in the election, a huge increase. If Republicans have their way, that might not last.