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MTV Audience Encouraged to "GYT" NEW YORK, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The fourth annual GYT: Get Yourself Tested campaign kicks off National STD Awareness Month (April) with new initiatives on-air, online, and on the ground at college campuses and in more than 5,000 health centers across the nation. GYT is an ongoing national campaign launched in 2009 as an extension of a longstanding public information partnership between MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation to...

Patients whose symptoms of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) start outside of the hospital setting have a higher risk of colectomy due to severe infection, according to a large multicenter study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Infection from C. difficile is associated with antibiotic use and results in colitis and diarrhea....

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM), representing the 64 federally funded state, territorial and large urban area immunization programs, applauds Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health for its findings in support of collaboration between immunization and emergency preparedness programs as the key to successful pandemic influenza response. The Emory Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center...

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Peter Bloland and colleagues from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lay out the agency's priorities for health systems strengthening efforts. To guide its support of public health in low- and middle-income countries around the world, the CDC proposes to focus its investments on strengthening six key public health functions that would contribute the most towards health systems strengthening efforts as a whole and have the greatest impact on...

Tips from Former Smokers campaign shows real lives and bodies damaged by tobacco ATLANTA, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Tips from Former Smokers campaign, calls to the 1-800-QUIT-NOW quitline have more than doubled. Call volume rose from 14,437 calls for the period Monday, March 12 - Sunday, March 18, to 33,262 calls for the period Monday, March 19 - Sunday, March 25, and a record 34,413 calls...

Higher deficiency rates in some groups deserve attention ATLANTA, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Overall, the U.S. population has good levels of vitamins A and D and folate in the body, but some groups still need to increase their levels of vitamin D and iron, according to the Second National Report on Biochemical Indicators of Diet and Nutrition, released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report offers a limited but generally favorable review...

Approximately 19 million new sexually transmitted infections occur every year in the United States – and almost half of these are among young people aged 15 to 24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During STD Awareness Month this April, Maternal & Family Health Services, Inc. (MFHS) encourages all sexually active women and men to get tested annually, learn about the risks and practice safer sex to reduce the risk of transmission of STDs. Wilkes-Barre,...

Early Identification and Treatment is Crucial for Kids to Get the Best Start in Life CHICAGO, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new study on the prevalence of autism among 8 year olds in 2008. It is now one in 88 children, and one in 54 for boys, which would suggest that more children are being identified and should receive the services and supports they need for best outcomes. (Logo:...

A new report released on Wednesday has U.S. cancer rates on the decline. This decline is the result of a more than 10 year trend. Since 1999, the rate of new cancer cases has been slowly shrinking at a rate of about half a percent each year. Over all, the rate of fatal cancers has dropped by 1.5 percent in adults and 1.7 percent in children. This news comes from a new collaborative report by various cancer groups. According to Fox News, Dr. Marcus Piescia of the Centers for Disease Control...

The traditional separation between primary health care providers and public health professionals is impeding greater success in meeting their shared goal of ensuring the health of populations, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Integration of these fields will require national leadership as well as substantial adaptation at the local level, said the committee that wrote the report. The report recommends ways that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and...