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Each May, the nation celebrates Older Americans Month to recognize older persons for their contributions and provide information to help them stay healthy and active. This year's focus is injury prevention, with the theme "Safe Today. Healthy Tomorrow.

May is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Awareness Month. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative disorder of the upper and lower motor neurons. The etiology of ALS is not well understood, and currently there is no cure.

The nation’s food safety grades are out and the results are mixed. CDC’s annual report shows that foodborne infections continue to be an important public health problem in the United States. More can be done.

You asked, we listened! CDC.gov has a fresh new look, and best of all, it is optimized for mobile devices.

Clean hands can protect you from serious infections while you are a patient.

April is Autism Awareness Month. Learn about CDC's new training to help health practitioners identify autism and provide quality care.

Learn to control your asthma.

Vaccinate your child against rotavirus, a major cause of severe diarrhea.

Can you imagine a day when antibiotics don’t work anymore? It’s concerning to think that the antibiotics that we depend upon for everything from skin and ear infections to life-threatening bloodstream infections could no longer work. Unfortunately, the threat of untreatable infections is very real.

The fight against polio has been part of CDC’s mission since the 1950s, and the global push to eradicate polio is just the latest chapter in CDC’s polio efforts