According to the authors behind theNational Vital Statisticsreport of the CDC, gestational age is a significant predictor of long-term and short-term morbidity and early mortality. The authors add that preterm births have the highest risk of adverse outcomes. However, the risk is also higher for...
Heather M. Scobie, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues examined national COVID-19 surveillance data sources and indicators in anticipation of the transition of public health surveillance data to otherdata sourcesor discontinuation, coinciding with expiration of the U.S. COVID-19 publi...
During the pandemic, deaths from accidents, overdoses, alcoholism and homicide all soared, as did deaths from hypertension, heart disease and diabetes... The CDC data show the rate of non-Covid excess deaths in the first half of 2022 was even higher than 2020 or 2021. These deaths therefo...
In September 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received initial results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey, a survey of tobacco use trends conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on behalf of the FDA and jointly funded by both agencies. The resu...
of COVID, respiratory syncytial virus and influenza, 104,000 adults reported missing work because of child care issues, the highest number in at least a decade. That number has fallen: Last month, child care problems meant41,000 adults missed work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Research (MOP-67189 to AG); the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (RGPIN 238392 to BPD); of and the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (to RG). A.W.A. was funded in part by an Ontario Graduate ...