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CDC - Protect Your Eyes: Healthy and Safe Contact Lens Cleaning and Use. Millions of people use contact lenses every day but lens cleaning practices can lead to eye infections. Hands should be washed before handling contact lenses and contacts should be properly cleaned, disinfected, and stored to ensure eye health and safety. Following your eye doctor’s recommendations and a few simple steps can lead to healthy daily contact lens use.

Ranee Seither, MPH1; Kayla Calhoun, MS2; Cynthia L. Knighton1; Jenelle Mellerson, MPH2; Seth Meador3; Ashley Tippins, MPH2; Stacie M. Greby, DVM1; Vance Dietz, MD1.

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. All women ages 50 to 74, including women with disabilities, should have a screening mammogram every two years as an important way to lower the risk of dying from breast cancer.

Helen Ding, MD1; Carla L. Black, PhD2; Sarah Ball, ScD3; Sara Donahue, DrPH3; Rebecca V. Fink, MPH3; Walter W.

Read one family’s story of living with fragile x syndrome and find out what CDC is doing about this condition.

Pet owners have a variety of food choices to give their pets, even raw food. But some germs have been found in raw pet foods that can make pets and people sick, including Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes. Learn how to protect your pet and yourself from disease.