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What is prescription drug misuse? If you take a medicine in a different way than your health care provider prescribed, it's called prescription drug misuse. It could be: Taking medicine prescribed for someone else. Taking a larger dose than you are supposed to.

Many people do not get the cancer screening tests they need — because they have a low income, no health insurance, or trouble getting to a doctor. That is a different problem from not knowing screening exists, and it needs a different answer.

RSV is the leading cause of hospitalisation among US infants, and most of those babies were born healthy and at term. Nirsevimab is a single dose before the season rather than a monthly one, and in 2023 the recommendation widened from a small high-risk group to every infant under eight months.

Key principles to guide efforts to improve antibiotic use, patient safety and outcomes.

Among hospitalised pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020, those admitted because of COVID-19 differed from those admitted to give birth who happened to test positive. Of the first group, 30% needed intensive care and one died.

This report describes safety monitoring of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine in people aged 12 years and older who received the vaccine.

United States Cancer Statistics combines the CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries with the National Cancer Institute's SEER programme. The most recent figures: 1,941,540 new cases in 2023, and 619,871 deaths in 2024.

In January 2020, CDC fielded inquiries about roughly 650 people and tested 210. Seventy per cent had a travel risk only — but 20% had been in contact with a patient in the United States, which is a different disease picture entirely.

Stroke is a leading cause of death among men, and about 4 in 5 strokes could be prevented. High blood pressure is the major risk factor — and 50.6% of men either have it or are already on medication for it.

Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Across 16 PEPFAR countries, preventive treatment starts rose 32% in two years — while completion among those who started crawled from 55% to 66%.

Better treatment means people with congenital heart defects are living longer and healthier lives. That created two problems nobody had before: moving from paediatric to adult cardiac care, and reproductive health for women with a heart defect.

At an Ohio electronics waste and lamp recycling facility, mercury vapour was found throughout the building. Among the workers with raised urine mercury, the median time in the job was eight months and five had symptoms of mercury toxicity.

What is chlamydia? Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI). It is caused by bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis. Anyone can get chlamydia.

A survey of 209 people using homeless services in San Francisco found three with antibodies but no vaccination and no known infection. None reported sexual contact in the preceding month — and the transmission route could not be determined for any of them.