Centers For Disease Control And Prevention

Stroke prevalence increased more than 15% among Americans aged 65 years and younger in the last decade, research published in MMWR showed.

Drug overdose deaths in the United States decreased in 2023 for the first time in half a decade, preliminary CDC data showed.

Those who live in rural areas face a higher risk for dying early from preventable deaths, but primary care providers can implement strategies to reduce these disparities, experts said during a CDC press conference.

BOSTON — The HIV epidemic is “never going to end” unless physicians do two things, according to Donna E. Sweet, MD, MACP, AAHIVS.

Nearly one-third of all measles cases reported in the United States since January 2020 were reported in the first quarter of 2024, raising concerns that the country could lose its measles elimination status, according to CDC researchers.

Primary care providers can play an important part in Candida auris detection, according to an expert.

Among adults with arthritis, severe joint pain is significantly more prevalent in Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native patients vs. white patients, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

The release of the 2016 CDC guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain may have had unintended consequences for patients with sickle cell disease, or SCD, a study showed.

The use of BP medication among people who reported having high blood pressure increased by about 3 percentage points, according to a study in MMWR.

Many health care workers, including primary care providers, may have lingering questions surrounding the new respiratory syncytial virus vaccines for older adults.