Mark Rosenberg, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's injury-prevention center, said in The Wall Street Journal late last year that the agency stopped most of its research on gun violence after 1996, following a successful lobbying campaign by gun-rights groups.
Samples are being collected from patients, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention is sharing genetic sequences with outside scientists.
The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
The Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center will focus on asthma, where rates are much higher among inner-city children, particularly blacks.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 85% of self-reported drunken drivers were binge drinkers.
According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention statistics, agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that children are particularly vulnerable and have the highest exposure to phthalates.
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Insulin pens are injector devices designed to allow multiple self-injections for one person, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's website.
But Ms. Wu, of the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters at Friday's news conference that the person had tested negative for H7N9.
Last week, IBM Research announced a pilot with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium to work on standardizing the exchange of health information among public health departments, doctors, and the CDC.
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The Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control has set up a nationwide program to screen for the new virus among patients diagnosed with pneumonia, state media reported.
The Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control has set up a nationwide program to screen for the new virus among patients diagnosed with pneumonia, state media report.
This is the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has ramped up its resources to tackle swine flu, a new disease that experts say may evolve into a global pandemic.
And our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will partner with their Indian counterparts to create a new disease detection center in India to combat infectious diseases and promote global health.
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The study was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, which as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regularly uses telephone surveys as a source of information about public health trends.
The survey, jointly conducted by the China Center for Disease Control, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, shows that seven out of 10 adults reported being exposed to secondhand smoke in a typical week.
"Most authorities would still recommend use of other preventive methods such as condoms, " even if the HIV-positive sexual partner is on antiretroviral treatment, Kevin De Cock, director of the Center for Global Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in an email.
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