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Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal established by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. PCD provides an open exchange of information and knowledge among researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and others who strive to improve the health of the public through chronic disease prevention.

Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal established by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. PCD provides an open exchange of information and knowledge among researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and others who strive to improve the health of the public through chronic disease prevention.

Everything you need to know about the flu illness, including symptoms, treatment and prevention.

CDC's Office on Smoking and Health offers information related to smoking and tobacco use.

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.

The tables listed in this report on pages 1020–1033 summarize finalized data, as of June 30, 2015, from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) for 2014. These data will be published in more detail in the Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States, 2014 (1). Because no cases were reported in the United States during 2014, the following diseases do not appear in these early release tables: anthrax; dengue hemorrhagic fever; eastern equine encephalitis, nonneuroinvasive; poliomyelitis, paralytic; poliovirus infection, nonparalytic; severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus disease (SARS-CoV); smallpox; vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA); western equine encephalitis virus disease, neuroinvasive and nonneuroinvasive; and yellow fever.

This year, National Child Passenger Safety Week is September 13–19. In the United States, motor vehicle–related injuries are a leading cause of death among children (1). In 2013, a total of 638 passenger vehicle occupants aged 0–12 years died as a result of a crash (2), and more than 127,250 were injured (1).

Final 2014–15 influenza season vaccination coverage estimates are available online at FluVaxView (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/) as of 10 a.

Lenee Blanton, MPH1; Krista Kniss, MPH1; Sophie Smith, MPH1; Desiree Mustaquim, MPH1; Craig Steffens, MPH1; Brendan Flannery, PhD1; Alicia M. Fry, MD1; Joseph Bresee, MD1; Teresa Wallis, MS1; Rebecca Garten, PhD1; Xiyan Xu, MD1; Anwar Isa Abd Elal1; Larisa Gubareva, PhD1; David E. Wentworth, PhD1; Erin Burns, MA1; Jacqueline Katz, PhD1; Daniel Jernigan, MD1; Lynnette Brammer, MPH1.

Alyson B. Goodman, MD1,2; Elissa Meites, MD1,3; Erica H. Anstey, PhD1,4; Kathleen E.