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Seven Things You May Not Know about
Women's Health
You
may be surprised to learn about some health issues that affect millions of women
or girls each year. Learn about some of them and what you can do.
Trends in
Mortality Among Females in the United States, 1900–2010: Progress and
Challenges
In this report researchers analyzed US female mortality rates by decade from
1900 through 2010, assessed age and racial differences, and proposed
explanations and considered implications.
What
Drives Health Professionals to Tweet About #HPVvaccine? Identifying Strategies
for Effective Communication
This study looks at how health professionals use Twitter to communicate about
the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
Report from Nine Maternal Mortality Review
Committees
This report was created by the Building U.S.
Capacity to Review and Prevent Maternal Deaths team, a collaboration between CDC, the CDC Foundation, and AMCHP
supported by funding from Merck, through the Merck for Mothers program.
CDC
Releases State-Specific Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance
Report
The
Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance – United States, 2015 summary in CDC’s Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) released today presents state-specific data on
assisted reproductive technology (ART) use and outcomes.
Cigarette
Smoking During Pregnancy: United States, 2016
This report presents the prevalence of cigarette smoking at any time during
pregnancy among women who gave birth in 2016 in the United States by state of
residence as well as maternal race and Hispanic origin, age, and educational
attainment.
Role of
Race/Ethnicity, Language, and Insurance in Use of Cervical Cancer Prevention
Services Among Low-Income Hispanic Women, 2009–2013
This study assesses the odds of having had Papanicolaou (Pap) tests and receiving
human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, by race/ethnicity, insurance status, and
language.
Rabies
Vaccine Hesitancy and Deaths Among Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women — Vietnam,
2015–2016
Despite widespread availability of PEP in Vietnam, in 2015 the
Ministry of Health (MoH) received reports of pregnant and breastfeeding women
with clinically diagnosed rabies. MoH investigated factors associated with
these rabies cases.
Vital
Signs: Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Opioid Overdoses —
United States, July 2016–September 2017
During July 2016–September 2017, emergency department
visits among those aged >11 years for opioid overdoses in the United
States increased 29.7% overall and 34.5% in 16 states with high prevalence of
overdose mortality.
Obstetric
Outcomes and Delivery-Related Health Care Utilization and Costs Among Pregnant
Women With Multiple Chronic Conditions
This study uses 2013–2014 data from the National Inpatient Sample to measure
obstetric outcomes and delivery-related health care utilization and costs among
women with no chronic conditions, 1 chronic condition, and multiple chronic
conditions.
Prevent
Colorectal Cancer: We Can Do It!
Find out just how
preventable colorectal cancer can be with this new blog post.
National
Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was March 10. The goals of this
event are to raise awareness about the need for all women, especially pregnant
women, to be tested and treated for HIV.
HIV Prevention Pill Not Reaching Most
Americans Who Could Benefit – Especially People of Color
A new CDC analysis suggests that only a small percentage of
Americans who could benefit from pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily pill
for HIV prevention, have been prescribed it.
Public
Meeting: Evaluating Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria in Clinical Trials, April 16, 2018
Public
Meeting on Patient-Focused Drug Development for Opioid Use Disorder, April 17, 2018
2nd International Symposium to
Advance Total Worker Health, May 8—11, 2018
2018
National Immunization Conference, May 15-17, 2018
Healthy
Aging Summit, July 16-17, 2018
International Conference on Emerging
Infectious Diseases (ICEID), August 26–29, 2018
National Occupational
Injury Research Symposium (NOIRS), October 16-18, 2018
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