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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says fatal overdoses now kill more Americans than car crashes.

(MedPage Today) -- Mortality rates in the postneonatal period -- between one month and one year of age, when many deaths are preventable -- remain persistently high among Native Alaskans, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

(MedPage Today) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced grants of $339 million to state and local health departments for HIV prevention activities in 2012.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- About 20% of women are raped at some point in their lifetime and in most cases the attacker is someone the woman knows, according to a new survey on sexual violence from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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(Immunization Action Coalition) The Immunization Action Coalition, one of the nation's premier sources of immunization information, and the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are entering into a cooperative agreement that will distribute IAC's highly regarded publications to pediatricians, family physicians, and other healthcare professionals involved in providing immunization services.

The award is for $1.4 million over five years.

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(University of Louisville) Building on the success of Louisville's response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, Ruth Carrico, Ph.D., plans to use a $250,000 one-year cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create an emergency countermeasure staffing plan that utilizes nursing, pharmacy and public health students.

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