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Stroke is a medical emergency. Learn what you can do to give yourself the best chance for survival and full recovery.

Lung cancer statistics from CDC: trends in incidence and mortality in the United States.

CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control sponsored a supplemental issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health about ways to prevent cancer, with a focus on youth.

A fact sheet that answers some of the questions patients, their family members, and caregivers may have about the end of life.

Sheila Arbury, MPH1, Brenda Jacklitsch, MS2, Opeyemi Farquah3, Michael Hodgson, MD4, Glenn Lamson, MS5, Heather Martin, MSPH3, Audrey Profitt, MPH6 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Make sure your family is up to date with their tetanus vaccine so they are protected against this serious infection commonly known as lockjaw. The bacteria that cause tetanus can be found everywhere in the environment.

CDC Vital Signs - Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, disease, and disability in the US. Each year, around 443,000 people die from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million suffer from a serious illness from smoking.

Ryan M. Wallace, DVM1, Darlene Bhavnani, PhD2, John Russell, DO3, Sherif Zaki, MD4, Atis Muehlenbachs, MD4, Kathryn Hayden-Pinneri, MD5, Ricardo Mena Aplícano, MD6, Leonard Peruski, PhD7, Neil M. Vora, MD1, Diana Elson, DrPH8, Edith Lederman, MD8, Ben Leeson, MD3, Thomas McLaughlin, DO3, Steve Waterman, MD4, Maureen Fonseca-Ford, MPH2, Jesse Blanton, MPH2, Richard Franka, DVM4, Andres Velasco-Villa, PhD4, Michael Niezgoda4, Lillian Orciari, MS4, Sergio Recuenco, MD4, Inger Damon, MD4, Cathleen Hanlon, VMD4, Felix Jackson4, Jessie Dyer, MPH4, Ashutosh Wadhwa, PhD4, Laura Robinson, DVM9 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Paula W. Yoon, ScD1, Brigham Bastian2, Robert N. Anderson, PhD2, Janet L.

Paula Kriner, MPH1, Karla Lopez, MD1, Jessica Leung, MPH2, Rafael Harpaz, MD2, Stephanie R. Bialek, MD2 (Author affiliations at end of text).