Europe’s defences against infectious diseases were strengthened in Sweden today with the official opening of an Emergency Operations Centre at the EU’s Disease Prevention and Control Agency in Stockholm, the ECDC.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that Americans are getting less and less sleep.

A group of specialists will investigate why a federal agency is withholding a report describing potential health threats near 26 heavily polluted areas in the Great Lakes region.

In parts of the United States, influenza is peaking, and while this year's vaccine isn't as effective as usual, the flu's misery can be avoided.

When times are good and fortune smiles, Americans sometimes say they're in Fat City. It's a state of mind more than a place. Fat City, man.

According to the report, represented in the U.S. on the part of CDC - national Center for Disease Control and Prevention in November 9, 2007, the decline in smoking rates during the recent years has stalled, thus turning the problem into a real concern for the federal health officials.