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A New Year's resolution - Don't follow the masses when it comes to exercise
What’s your new year’s resolution? For many people this time of year, losing weight and/or getting active tops the list. But when it comes to getting exercise (or, as we at NCHS term it, r… more →
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A New Year's resolution - Don't follow the masses when it comes to exercise
wrote 1 day ago: What’s your new year’s resolution? For many people this time of year, losing weight and/ … more →
How's your state doing?
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wrote 2 weeks ago: NCHS now has an easy way for you to check out where your state stands on a variety of health measure … more →
Health insurance stats - down to basics...
wrote 2 months ago: In 2008, 43.8 million people of all ages(14.7%) were uninsured at the time of interview. After adjus … more →
New health insurance coverage numbers/percentages released for first quarter 2009
wrote 3 months ago: Today the National Center for Health Statistics released the first numbers for health insurance cove … more →
Exercise not a priority for the majority of Americans
wrote 3 months ago: How many Americans are exercising? The answer might surprise you (or it might not). Here’s a l … more →
More injuries cccur at home than elsewhere
wrote 4 months ago: More injuries occur at a person’s house than anywhere else, a new report from NCHS shows. Also … more →
Genetic Testing For Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancers Greatly Underutilized By High-Risk Women
wrote 7 months ago: A women’s lifetime breast cancer risk is approximately 13 percent, and her ovarian cancer risk … more →
A brief look at heart disease
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wrote 10 months ago: As a farewell to “American Heart Month,” here’s a brief synopsis of why the heart … more →
1 in 6 households only have wireless telephones
wrote 1 year ago: A new report released today by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has the latest esti … more →
New report on CAM therapy
wrote 1 year ago: A new report was released by NCHS in collaboration with NIH’s National Center for Complementar … more →
A brief look at asthma
wrote 1 year ago: Two weeks ago, NCHS released a report concerning the prevalence of food allergies in children. In th … more →
Food allergies on the rise among U.S. children
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wrote 1 year ago: More Highlights from Data Brief #10: In 2007, approximately 3 million children under age 18 years … more →
First 2008 data on selected health measures released.
wrote 1 year ago: The first 2008 data (January through March) on selected health measures has been released. Estimates … more →
Lack of Sleep Linked With Adverse Health Behaviors
wrote 1 year ago: Adults who sleep less than 6 hours are more likely to smoke, drink, or be obese. Read more about sle … more →
HIV Testing
wrote 2 years ago: Though the CDC has a center devoted to the study of HIV/AIDS, the National Center for Health Statist … more →
Wireless Use in the United States
wrote 2 years ago: Most of our data sets are distinctly health and medical related. But not all. Using the National Hea … more →
Type 1 Diabetes
wrote 2 years ago: Yesterday the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article entitled Incidence of … more →
Health Insurance Coverage
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wrote 2 years ago: The National Center for Health Statistics has released its estimates of health insurance coverage in … more →
