Back-to-School: A Time to Think about Health and Academics

Thomas Simon, PhD Biography “We have learned a lot about what works to stop youth violence. Schools are an important part of violence prevention in communities. School-based programs that effectively teach skills, like communication, conflict resolution and management, empathy, and impulse control, have been shown to reduce youth violence. CDC’s new resource, A Comprehensive Technical […]

Heart disease and stroke deaths hitting middle age adults in large numbers | CDC Online Newsroom

Press Release Embargoed Until: Thursday, September 6, 2018, 1:00 p.m. ETContact: Media Relations(404) 639-3286 Despite being largely preventable, heart attacks, strokes, heart failure and other related conditions caused 2.2 million hospitalizations in 2016, resulting in $32.7 billion in costs and 415,000 deaths, according to the latest CDC’s Vital Signs report. Many of these events were […]