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Annually in the United States, 2.5 million persons aged ?65 years are treated in emergency departments for injuries from falls, resulting in $34 billion in direct medical costs (1). Given these costs, the aging U.

Curtis Florence, PhD1; Tamara Haegerich, PhD2; Thomas Simon, PhD3; Chao Zhou, PhD1; Feijun Luo, PhD1.

HPV vaccination is cancer prevention. CDC provides Information and resources for healthcare professionals to successfully recommend and answer questions about HPV vaccination.

The story of Meagan, a 22-year-old woman who decided to have a lump in her breast checked through ultrasound. The test results found that the lump was not cancerous.

Interested in chronic disease data, risk factors, health indicators, and policy measures? CDC is making all these data and indicators much easier to access and use. Use the data to describe the burden of chronic disease as well as common risk factors, identify research gaps, monitor population trends, and evaluate programs.

The built environment includes the physical makeup of where we live, learn, work, and play—our homes, schools, businesses, streets and sidewalks, open spaces, and transportation options.

The NCHHSTP Atlas is an innovative and interactive, online data tool that lets you use and analyze the most recent CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, STDs, and tuberculosis. The Atlas also gives you the power to build custom maps, figures, and tables that you can use for planning, reports, presentation, and advocacy. Newly updated, the Atlas has added an Advanced Query function, along with other features. We invite you to check it out!

October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. Find out if noise at your workplace is affecting your hearing and learn how to prevent noise-induced hearing loss. Monitor noise levels and protect your hearing.

Brigette Gleason, MD1; John Redd, MD2; Peter Kilmarx, MD3,4; Tom Sesay, MD5; Francis Bayor5; Antons Mozalevskis, MD6; Allison Connolly6; James Akpablie, MD6; Dimitri Prybylski, PhD3,7; Daphne Moffett, PhD3,8; Michael King, PhD9; Micah Bass10; Kristy Joseph3; Jefferson Jones, MD1; Francis Ocen11.