CDC Alerts

During this week, individuals, families, communities, and others work to help women learn how to achieve longer, healthier, and safer lives.

While being a mother means caring for others, here are a few things moms can do to take care of themselves. Moms of every age can take steps to live a safer and healthier life.

About 1 in 8 women aged 18 years and older and 1 in 5 high school girls binge drink. Binge drinking increases the chances of breast cancer, heart disease, sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancy, and many other health problems.

About 1 in 8 women aged 18 years and older and 1 in 5 high school girls binge drink. Binge drinking increases the chances of breast cancer, heart disease, sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancy, and many other health problems.

Teen birth rates in the United States have declined to the lowest rates seen in seven decades, yet they are still nine times higher than in most other developed countries and ethnic disparities continue to persist. Parents, educators, public health and medical professionals, and community organizations all have a role to play in reducing teen pregnancy.

Understanding Evidence is a new, interactive web resource that supports public health practitioners in making evidence-informed decisions around violence prevention. This free, online resource offers practitioners and others working to prevent violence important knowledge and resources for using evidence in their decision making processes.

Norovirus was responsible for nearly 1 million pediatric medical care visits for 2009 and 2010 in the United States. About 50 percent of the medical care visits due to norovirus infections were among children aged 6 to 18 months. Infants and 1-year-old children were more likely to be hospitalized than older children.

CDC has developed several new tools (app, summary charts, MEC Wheel) to assist health care providers in accessing and using the U.S. MEC.

From 1999 to 2010, the rate of TBI-related deaths among youths aged 15–19 years decreased by nearly half, from 23.0 per 100,000 in 1999 to 11.7 in 2010. Rates also decreased for children aged 0–4 years, from 5.4 per 100,000 in 1999 to 4.0 in 2010, and for children and teens aged 5–14 years, from 3.7 per 100,000 in 1999 to 1.8 in 2010.

Understand your risk of HIV infection, get educated about how HIV is spread, get tested to find out your status, and get treated if you are living with HIV.

Understand your risk of HIV infection, get educated about how HIV is spread, get tested to find out your status, and get treated if you are living with HIV.

The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly webcast created to foster discussion on major public health issues. The next Grand Rounds presentation will be on teen pregnancy, and will be held on Tuesday, March 19.

Diabetes can affect any part on your body. The good news is that you can prevent most of these problems. Learn more about how diabetes can affect your body and steps you can take to prevent these complications.

If you are a woman of childbearing age with a blood disorder, a family member of someone affected by a blood disorder, or someone who suspects they may have a blood disorder, please join us for our Facebook Chat Thursday, March 7 at noon Eastern.

Each year, recommendations for routine use of vaccines in children, adolescents, and adults in the United States are developed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This year, for the first time, recommended immunization schedules for persons aged 0 through 18 years and adults aged 19 years and older are being published together.