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CDC Report: Viral Hepatitis Rates Decreasing or Remaining Stable
A newly released CDC report demonstrates that five of 10 indicators assessing progress toward viral hepatitis ...
JULY 10, 2025
At-Risk Populations Appear to Be Embracing DoxyPEP
New studies about doxyPEP find patients are adopting the strategy and some bacterial STIs are going down.
MARCH 8, 2024
Why Pharmacists Still Fax
The CDC is making a new push to encourage health facilities to share data with public health authorities using ...
OCTOBER 11, 2023
New HIV Cases Declined 34% From 2017 to 2021, but Disparities Remain
New cases of HIV infection declined 12% from 2017 to 2021—an estimated annual infection totaling 36,500 in ...
JUNE 2, 2023
CDC Recommends Additional COVID-19 Booster for Older or Immunocompromised People
After the FDA announced its new amendments to the emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna ...
APRIL 20, 2023
CDC Recommends Novavax for COVID-19
The effort to overcome remaining vaccination hesitancy was at the forefront of the conversation as the CDC’s ...
JULY 20, 2022
Overdose Deaths Among HIV Patients Increasing
From 2011 to 2015, the mortality rate for all people with HIV decreased 13%. However, the rate of opioid overdose ...
JULY 19, 2019
CDC Aims to ‘End HIV Epidemic’ With 10-Year Plan
The vast majority (about 80%) of new HIV infections in the United States in 2016 were transmitted from the nearly ...
MARCH 18, 2019
High Rates of HCV Among Potential Organ Donors
The proportion of organ donors at risk for infection has grown 200% since 2010, most likely due to higher rates of ...
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Adenovirus Claims Lives of 7 Children; Infects 11 Others in Rehab Outbreak
The particular strain of adenovirus in this outbreak is affecting medically fragile children with severely ...
OCTOBER 23, 2018
CDC Allocates Almost $200M More for Opioid Epidemic
Far too many Americans are dying from opioid overdoses every day, said CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, MD.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
