The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken control of the remaining 22.4 million available flu shots in the United States in an attempt to make sure only those who really need the shot get it.

ATLANTA - More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year - the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.

ATLANTA - When ticks caused an outbreak of Rocky Mountain spotted fever at an American Indian reservation in Arizona, the nation's premier health agency called the Orkin Man.

Arizona has the lowest cancer incidence rates in the country but Arizonans who are diagnosed are often found with later stages of cancer, according to a recent report by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The U.S. is on track to have the most cases of measles this year in more than a decade: 118 through May 20.

WASHINGTON - Scientists will begin testing in January whether they can stretch the nation's limited supply of an experimental bird-flu vaccine by pairing it with an immune-system booster.

Arizonans are overweight, inactive and not eating their fruits and vegetables, fueling an obesity epidemic that threatens to bankrupt our health care system, price private-sector insurance out of reach and send our children to early graves.

Arizonans are overweight, inactive and not eating their fruits and vegetables, fueling an obesity epidemic that threatens to bankrupt our health care system, price private-sector insurance out of reach and send our children to early graves.

WASHINGTON - Some 45 million Americans with blood pressure levels once considered normal or borderline actually have "prehypertension," say new government guidelines that urge them to exercise, avoid salt and make other changes to stave off full-blown high blood pressure.

Mention gout, and some people conjure visions of Henry VIII hobbling around his castle with a turkey leg in one hand and a goblet of wine in the other. Gout long was considered an affliction of wealth.

CHICAGO - Amid worries about bird flu, demand for a flu medicine is so extreme that the drug's maker has stopped shipping it to private U.S. suppliers just as consumers fret over whether they should try to stock up on the drug.

BOSTON - The federal government will install a new quarantine station at Logan International Airport to evaluate travelers who may pose a health threat to the region, officials said.

The landmark Sheraton San Marcos Resort and Country Club in Chandler, known to attract the rich and famous, has been shut down since Tuesday after the discovery of a potentially fatal bacteria that infected an elderly man.

WASHINGTON - Planes provide the quickest way to get from one part of the world to another - for deadly contagious diseases as well as for people. In the spring of 2003, the respiratory virus SARS journeyed to five countries in 24 hours after emerging in rural China. Airline and tourism industries lost billions of dollars worldwide because people were afraid to travel and governments ordered flights canceled.

WASHINGTON - With health experts across the world scrambling to identify a deadly new pneumonia-like disease, a report released Tuesday urges the United States to take the lead in global efforts to detect and counter such new infections.

ATLANTA — U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.

Researchers say Mexican immigrants who exercise regularly, eat wholesome foods and live in tight-knit communities illustrate why Latinos live longer on average than non-Hispanic whites and blacks.

WASHINGTON - Federal officials warned on Tuesday that swine-flu related deaths were likely in the United States as the disease that killed scores in Mexico continued to spread across the world and governments intensified steps to battle the outbreak.

ATLANTA - For the first time since the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, more than a million Americans are believed to be living with the virus that causes AIDS, the government said Monday.

Air travelers were taking their own precautions as they passed through Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Monday following confirmations of more swine flu cases in the United States and Mexico.

ATLANTA - The smoking rate among U.S. adults continues to inch downward, with 20.9 percent of Americans describing themselves as regular puffers last year.

ATLANTA - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.

NEW YORK - Two cases of the human swine influenza have been confirmed in Kansas and one more in California, bringing the U.S. total to 11. At least eight students at a New York City high school probably have swine flu also, but health officials said Saturday they don't know whether they have the same strain of the virus that has killed people in Mexico.

Admit it, Mesa residents, your jeans aren’t fitting like they did last year. You’ve shamelessly been eating bread. When the elevator’s broken, you consider whether your car can navigate the stairs. How do we know?