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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden took questions from reporters on Oct. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/John Amis/File)

Syphilis in newborns up sharply: report

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland Democrat, and his allies in Congress say they are determined to make the Affordable Care Act work no matter what stands in their way. The GOP, however, is not relenting. (Associated Press) **FILE**

CDC selects two Baltimore colleges to receive grants to stop disease spread

By Carleton Bryant - The Washington Times

A heart healthy lunch of chicken fried rice, vegetables, fruit and dessert is served to a heart patient Thursday, May 1, 2014, at Houston's Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Menu changes are one way to care for an increasingly diverse population that hails from regions once not typical to the Houston area. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

NINA RADCLIFF: How to stay ‘young at heart’

By Dr. Nina Radcliff

The Obama administration decided in 2012 that birth control was part of mandatory coverage under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, upsetting faith-based employers who were opposed to some types contraceptives. (Associated Press/File)

Teen use of morning-after pill is climbing: report

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

In this photo taken June 1, 2015, Marion Fire Department Capt. Wade Ralph shows a dose of naloxone, used by emergency crews to revive overdosing heroin users in Marion, Ohio. The life-saving drug was used repeatedly when a super-charged batch of heroin led to more than 30 overdoses in an 11-day period at the end of May in the small Ohio city. (AP Photo/Mitch Stacy)

Heroin usage rates jump in last decade: CDC

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

In this May 8, 2015 photo Scott Hogg fishes on Elk Lake, Ore. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife stocks the lake with about 50,000 trout fingerlings each year. (Mark Morical/The Bulletin via AP)

Don’t swallow lake water, feds say, citing last summer’s norovirus case

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Actress Cameron Diaz has said she never felt drawn to motherhood. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

JANICE SHAW CROUSE: Have we reached a tipping point with childlessness?

By Janice Shaw Crouse

CDC rubber glove illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

BETSY MCCAUGHEY: Clostridium difficile superbug threatens as the CDC dithers

By Betsy McCaughey

A nonprofit group called Bloodstained Men & Their Friends protest newborn circumcision by wearing white pants with a red stain at the crotch. Some of the group's members are expected to join a protest at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Jan. 22, 2015 over its recommendation that health care providers be more proactive in discussing circumcision with parents of baby boys and "at-risk" heterosexual teens and men who aren't circumcised. (Photo courtesy of Bloodstained Men & Their Friends)

Circumcision proposal by CDC drawing detractors

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

HIV infections acquired at health care jobs are now very rare in the United States, the federal government said Thursday. Of the dozens of known U.S. health care workplace-acquired HIV infections, most involved an accidental needle stick. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)

HIV workplace infections very rare: CDC

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

More than 2,200 people a year -- or six people a day -- have died from alcohol poisoning in recent years, the federal government said in a new report. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

6 people a day dying from alcohol overdose: report

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

With millions of new sexually transmitted disease (STD) infections a year, public health officials encourage people to get tested. (Image courtesy of County of San Mateo Health System). **FILE**

Chlamydia cases drop for first time, but syphilis up: survey

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

A woman smokes a cigarette. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Smoking among adults hits historical low: CDC

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Dr. Lisa Sterman holds up a Truvada pill, an HIV treatment pill used to prevent infection in people at high risk of getting the AIDS virus, at her office in San Francisco. Research showing that the pill does not encourage risky sex and is effective even if people skip some doses was discussed Tuesday, July 22, 2014, at the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. The research was published by the British journal Lancet Infectious Diseases (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Many HIV sufferers untreated: CDC

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

In this January 2013 photo provided by Penn Medicine, a technician removes a case of modified T cells genetically modified to resist HIV infection from storage in an ultra-low temperature freezer for testing at the Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Scientists have modified genes in the blood cells of HIV patients to help them resist the AIDS virus, and say the treatment seems safe and promising. The results give hope that this approach might one day free at least some people from needing medicines to keep HIV under control. Results of the study at the University of Pennsylvania were published in the Thursday, March 6, 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. (AP Photo/Penn Medicine, Peggy Peterson Photography)

HIV: New cases down, gay males still overrepresented

The Washington Times

Illustration by AMMER, Weiner Zeitung, Vienna, Austria

KNIGHT: Ebola response ignores history’s lessons

By Robert Knight

Illustration on fears of the spread of Ebola to America by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency

MONICA CROWLEY: The virus of relentless Ebola politics

By Monica Crowley - The Washington Times

CDC Director Tom Frieden (Associated Press)

CDC unveils a four-tier Ebola risk scale to help local authorities

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times