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Diabetes
and Women
Women with diabetes have more to
manage. Stay on track by checking your blood sugar often, eating healthy
food, and being active so you can be your healthiest and feel your best.
National
Minority Health Month
April is National Minority Health
Month. The theme for 2018 is “Partnering for Health Equity.” Learn more and
help raise awareness of the health disparities that affect minorities.
Mission Possible: Celebrating Women’s Strength and Persistence
Read about women that have demonstrated their strength and persistence to overcome life challenges and achieve awesome accomplishments.
Confronting
Opioids
CDC continues to fight the opioid
overdose epidemic, working to save lives and prevent negative health effects
of this epidemic, such as opioid use disorder, hepatitis and HIV infections,
and neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Health Disparities in Cancer
Some groups of people get cancer, or die from cancer, more often
than other groups. These differences in health are called health disparities. Learn more about what causes health
disparities, what can be done to reduce them and some kinds of health
disparities in cancer.
Alzheimer’s Association Releases
2016 State-Specific Dementia Caregiver Fact Sheets
With support from the CDC, data from the 2016 Caregiver Module
of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System are presented in
fact sheets for each participating state. Learn
more about the characteristics of caregivers and the challenges they
face helping those with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
Heart
Disease Death Rates Among Blacks and Whites Aged ≥35 Years — United States,
1968–2015
This report demonstrates the use of data from the
National Vital Statistics System to conduct surveillance of heart disease
death rates by race and of black-white disparities in heart disease death
rates among adults aged ≥35 years for 1968–2015.
Get
Ahead of Sepsis
Get Ahead of Sepsis is a national effort to improve
sepsis early suspicion and recognition and timely treatment, as well as prevent
infections that could lead to sepsis.
New CDC Infographic on Talking
With Your Doctor About Cognitive Symptoms
A new CDC infographic is available for you to download. It
focuses on learning more about Alzheimer’s disease and the symptoms you
should speak about with your doctor and family.
Overdose
Deaths Involving Opioids, Cocaine, and Psychostimulants — United States,
2015–2016
In this study, CDC examined age-adjusted death rates for
overdoses involving all opioids, opioid subcategories (i.e., prescription
opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids),cocaine, and psychostimulants with
abuse potential (psychostimulants) by demographics, urbanization levels, and
in 31 states and the District of Columbia.
Prevalence
of Diagnosed Diabetes in Adults by Diabetes Type — United States, 2016
This study used National Health Interview Survey data from
2016 to estimate the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among adults by primary
type.
Updated
CDC Recommendations for Using Artemether-Lumefantrine for the Treatment of
Uncomplicated Malaria in Pregnant Women in the United States
This policy note reviews the evidence and updates CDC
recommendations to include artemether-lumefantrine as a treatment option for
uncomplicated malaria during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and
during the first trimester of pregnancy when other treatment options are
unavailable.
Sexual Violence Prevention
In the United States, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men have experienced sexual
violence involving physical contact at some point in their lives. CDC’s goal is to stop sexual violence before it
begins.
CDC’s
Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Program Webinar, May 8, 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
Academy
of Breastfeeding Medicine Annual Meeting, November 14-17, 2018
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