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Read this blog post to learn how the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is collecting new nutrition data for children from birth to age 24 months.

Teen substance use can harm brain development and increase the risk of addiction later in life. Nationally, over 14% of U.S. teens use alcohol or drugs. In Washington State, the 2016 Healthy Youth Survey found that 20% of 10th grade students drink alcohol and 17% use marijuana—and these students report lower grades in school than students who don’t use those substances.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), today's health services are not fit for the 21st-century challenges. Globally, more than 400 million people lack access to essential health care. Where health care is accessible, it is often fragmented and of poor quality. However, WHO’s newly launched framework on integrated people-centred health services is a call for a fundamental shift in the way we fund, manage, and deliver health services. It sustains countries’ progress towards universal health coverage by shifting away from health systems designed around diseases and health institutions towards health systems designed for people.

By ODPHP’s Health Care Quality Division and CDC’s Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS) Ever heard the phrase “There’s an app for that”? Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, released the Anticoagulation Manager mobile app — and it’s now free to download from the Apple App Store! The Anticoagulation Manager application is a clinical decision support tool designed to guide clinicians as they make decisions about prescribing anticoagulants — and to decrease errors in administration and laboratory testing...