CDC Expert Commentary
This special series of commentaries, interviews, and slideshows is part of a collaboration between CDC and Medscape. This content is designed to deliver CDC's authoritative guidance directly to Medscape's physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.
Expert Commentaries
- Does Your Patient Have Latent TB Infection? Test Your Knowledge
- How to Report COVID Vaccine-Related Adverse Events
- CDC Doc Addresses Today's Pandemic and the Next
- The COVID Complication You Might Miss
- Flu Vaccine 2020-2021 Recommendations
- PrEP During COVID-19: 5 Things to Know
- Latent TB Infection: New Guidelines and Preferred Treatments
- It's Tick Season: 5 Things to Know About Lyme Disease Tests
- Helping Patients Quit Tobacco: 5 Things to Know
- Protecting Youth From e-Cigs: 5 Things to Know
- MTHFR and Birth Defects: Does Type of Folate Matter?
- Updated Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations for Older Adults
- A 'Healthy' Baby With Developmental Delay: Could It Be Zika?
- New Strategies to Prevent MRSA Infections in Your Hospital
- A Teen With Cough: Could This Be Vaping Related?
Slideshows
- Infant Outcomes of Zika: New Data
- Ocular Findings in Congenital Zika Infection
- Illnesses Linked to Contact With Pets and Farm Animals
- Where Art Meets Science: A Lens on the CDC
- What Foods Are Making People Sick? Recent Major Outbreaks
- An Alarming Trend: Multistate Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
- Foodborne Illness Outbreaks: Most Wanted List
- Hepatitis C: 25 Years From Discovery to Cure
- Neglected Parasitic Infections in the United States
- Risks From Pets and Pet Food
CDC Mission
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and the development of public health policies, tools, and information. CDC offers expertise, leadership, and training on topics ranging from common diseases and conditions, emergency preparedness, environmental health and safety, healthy living, traveler's health, and workplace safety and health.