Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, concerned to make the youth aware of AIDS, has launched the "i know" campaign to draw young people into a dialogue about HIV using popular networking mediums like Facebook, Twitter, texts, a website (actagainstaids. org).

CDC analyzes information about influenza disease activity taking place every week in the United States. The findings are published in a report called FluView. Findings for January 31 to February 6 were almost same as it was in the previous week.

As confirmed by official data shared, for the second consecutive year, a rise in the birth rate among teens had been recorded for 2007, fueling concerns that all efforts to curb teen pregnancies are not giving out the results that they once did.

A report by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that one per cent children in the U. S., about one in 110, had autism in 2006. Media quoted on Monday.

The new figure was derived from a wide-ranging set of data based on the developmental health of eight-year-olds from about 11 states.

Going by the latest information forwarded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of cases of swine flu, or H1N1, is on the decline, with the swine flu rates in the country reportedly falling for the fifth week in a row.

A new drug for the treatment of hepatitis C has shown promise in a private study. The drug uses a new strategy to save the hepatitis C virus from replicating. The new DNA-based drug targets a small RNA molecule in the liver which is required by hepatitis C to replicate as per the researchers.

The Centers for Disease Control, in lieu of the upcoming holiday season and the huge amounts of travel associated with it, has launched a campaign to assure that travelers are well educated about H1N1, more casually known as Swine Flu.

The prevalence of obesity and diabetes in the U. S. is rather higher in the South and Appalachian region than in most areas of the West Northeast as per the CDC.

The CDC, in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, estimates obesity and diabetes prevalence for all 3,141 countries in the U. S. and found distinct geographic patterns for both conditions.

Recent figures shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed that lung cancer has lately managed to dislodge breast cancer to take its place as the main form of cancer which leads to deaths in women.

A recent report released by CDC says that the main reason of the increasing rate of infant mortality in America is the high percentage of preterm babies. CDC, with the help of data collected in 2005, has confirmed that 1 out of every 8 American births was preterm, compared to the same in Ireland and Finland which stood at 1 in 18 births.