10Jan2022 Read more New HIV PrEP guidelines call for clinicians to talk with patients about prevention meds CDC now advises all clinicians to talk to their patients who are sexually active, including adolescents, about HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) at least once and to prescribe the prevention medication to anyone who requests them.
17Dec2021 Read more Fentanyl deaths spike in certain parts of the U.S. Between 2019 and 2020, illicitly manufactured fentanyl-related overdose deaths increased substantially in western, southern, and midwestern states, CDC reported.
6Dec2021 Read more Autism prevalence higher in CDC’s monitoring network New data from CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) network show that 2.3% of children aged 8 years in 11 communities across the United States had an autism diagnosis in 2018.
6Dec2021 Read more Majority of mumps cases are among vaccinated, study finds New research from CDC, published in the December issue of Pediatrics, shows that the virus that causes mumps continues to circulate in the United States, primarily infecting people vaccinated against it, including children.