Disease Management
The Health Resources and Services Administration Friday awarded cities, counties, states and community organizations $2.27 billion in fiscal year 2019 grants to support medical and support services.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday updated the number of people with confirmed or probable lung injuries associated with electronic cigarette use or vaping products to 1,479 in 49 states.
The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized marketing of a rapid diagnostic test to detect Ebola virus antigens in human blood from certain living individuals as well as samples from those recently deceased who are suspected to have died from Ebola.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released updated interim clinical guidance for U.S. health care providers evaluating and caring for patients with lung injury associated with use of electronic cigarette or vaping products.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week reported a record 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in the U.S. in 2018, including a 40% increase in syphilis among newborns.
Only one in three U.S. pregnant women receive both the flu and whooping cough vaccines as recommended, according to a Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The U.S. has retained its measles elimination status for another year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its resources for health care providers on vaping-associated lung injury to include a poster for clinical settings.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a new pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for certain adults and adolescents who do not have HIV but are at risk for infection from sex.
The hepatitis C infection rate among women giving birth rose 400% between 2000 and 2015 to 4.1 per 1,000 deliveries, according to a study of hospital discharge data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.