Topic: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Step up your walking

By Nancy Reid, Staff Writer, myOptumHealth . . Content provided by . . If you want to pump up your walking, increasing your speed and climbing...

The right car seat to keep your child safe

If you had to venture a guess, what would you think is the No. 1 killer of children between the ages of 1 and 14? If you said car accidents, you'd...

1 in 5 U.S. kids has high cholesterol

Twenty percent of U.S. children and teens have abnormal lipid levels, an indication of too much bad cholesterol, too little good cholesterol or...

CDC links infections with H1N1 swine flu deaths

Bacterial co-infections are common among people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States and probably contributed to their deaths...
The first doses of vaccines that protect against 2009 H1N1 influenza (flu) are now available, and more doses will be shipped in the upcoming weeks...