Center for Disease Control

NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer cases of diabetes are being diagnosed in U.S. adults, according to startling new federal statistics released Tuesday. Diabetes had been climbing for decades, driven by surging obesity rates. In 2009, the number of new cases reached 1.7 million. By last year, it had dropped to 1.4 million. “After so many […]

01/24/14- Jacque Reid goes “Inside Her Story” with Dr. Jacqueline Miller, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about Gynecological Cancer and HPV and how it affects a woman’s body.

Let’s talk about guns. Well, first let’s remove the politics and truthfully talk about gun laws, about gun violence.  After the Newtown shooting President Obama commissioned the Center for Disease Control to research gun violence and offer solutions.  And the study was completed this summer and it just might make you rethink your stance, your […]

Black teens are not smoking cigarettes as much as they used to, but they are firing up cigars more frequently, according to data in a recent survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2009 to 2011, the rate of cigar smoking among African American high school students increased from 7.1 percent to […]

A new health report found that the number of teens engaging in oral sex has dropped between 2002 and 2010. The report, "Prevalence and Timing of Oral Sex With Opposite-Sex Partners Among Females and Males Aged 15-24 Years: United States," was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Center for […]