Americans made about 1.1 billion visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments in 2006, which works out to an average of four visits per person per year, according to statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The number of visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency [...]

A national campaign to teach parents how to protect kids from skin infections caused by dangerous methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria was launched this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
MRSA, a type of staph bacteria that’s resistant to certain antibiotics, can cause severe infections in people in hospitals and other health [...]

The rate of new HIV infections among young gay or bisexual black men is significantly higher than new infections among whites and Hispanics of the same age Mental-Health, the U.S Mental-Health. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday.
“The number of new HIV infections among young black men who have sex with men is [...]