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- 1From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 68, Issue 50)FROM THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS The rate of ED visits with a primary diagnosis or primary complaint of substance abuse or dependence by patients aged 18-34 years in the United States increased from 45.4...
- 2From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 68, Issue 45)Approximately 30 million persons in the United States have diabetes. * Persons with diabetes are at risk for vision loss from diabetic retinopathy and other eye diseases (1). Diabetic retinopathy, the most common...
- 3From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 68, Issue 47)In the report "Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis--January 2018-June 2019," on page 979, a sentence was omitted from the first paragraph. The paragraph should have read as follows: "Dracunculiasis...
- 4From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 68, Issue 46)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects the lives of millions of Americans each year (1). To describe the trends in TBI-related deaths among different racial/ethnic groups and by sex, CDC analyzed death data from the...
- 5From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 17)FROM THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS In 2018, the U.S. suicide rate was 14.2 per 100,000 standard population, with rates varying by state. The five states with the highest age-adjusted suicide rates were...
- 6From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 14)Introduction: Hepatitis C is a leading cause of death from liver disease in the United States. Acute hepatitis C infection is often asymptomatic, and >50% of cases will progress to chronic infection, which can be life-...
- 7From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 19)Introduction: Perinatal depression is a complication of pregnancy that can result in adverse maternal and infant outcomes. Screening to identify pregnant and postpartum women with depressive symptoms is recommended to...
- 8From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 22)On May 29, 2019, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr). From January 21 through February 23, 2020, public health agencies detected 14 U.S. cases of coronavirus...
- 9From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 23)On June 8, 2020, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr). On April 22, CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported cases of two domestic cats with...
- 10From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 25)In 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EHE) initiative to end the U.S. human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic by 2030. A critical...
- 11From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 32)On August 7, 2020, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr). In April 2020, during the peak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Europe, a cluster...
- 12From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 27)During 20102016, there were an average of 283,000 U.S. emergency department (ED) visits each year among children for sports and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (SRR-TBIs); approximately 45% of these SRR-TBIs...
- 13From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 28)Background: Prescription opioid use during pregnancy has been associated with poor outcomes for mothers and infants. Studies using administrative data have estimated that 14%-22% of women filled a prescription for...
- 14From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 31)On August 3, 2020, this report was postedas an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr). SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is spread from person to person...
- 15From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 39)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral respiratory illness caused by SARS-CoV-2. During January 21--July 25, 2020, in response to official requests for assistance with COVID-19 emergency public health response...
- 16From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 38)On September 22, 2020, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr). Contact tracing is a strategy implemented to minimize the spread of communicable diseases (1,2)....
- 17From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 42)Immunization has been described as a "global health and development success story," and worldwide is estimated to prevent 2-3 million deaths annually. * In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization...
- 18From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 47)The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends introducing complementary foods (i.e., any solid or liquid other than breast milk or infant formula) to infants at approximately age 6 months (1). Although a consensus...
- 19From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 69, Issue 48)On August 30, 2019, Yap State declared a public health crisis caused by concurrent outbreaks of dengue and leptospirosis, two clinically similar illnesses, resulting in 545 suspected dengue cases and 515 suspected...
- 20From: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Vol. 65, Issue 49)American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons experienced disproportionate mortality during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic (1,2). Concerns of a similar trend during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic...