• Top Ten Articles of the Week
• CDC-authored publications
• Key scientific articles in featured topic areas (this week featuring Chronic Diseases and Conditions - Colorectal Cancer)
• Public health articles noted in the media

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1. Top Ten Articles of the Week
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     • Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2007, featuring tumors of the brain and other nervous system
       Kohler BA, Ward E, McCarthy BJ, Schymura MJ, Ries LA, Eheman C, Jemal A, Anderson RN, Ajani UA, Edwards BK.
       J Natl Cancer Inst. 2011 ;103:1-23.
       
     • Asthma prevalence, health care use, and mortality: United States, 2005-2009
       Akinbami LJ, Moorman JE, Liu X.
       Natl Health Stat Report. 2011 Jan 12(32):1-14.
       
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions - Colorectal Cancer
     • Barriers to colorectal cancer screening: physician and general population perspectives, New Mexico, 2006
       Hoffman RM, Rhyne RL, Helitzer DL, Stone SN, Sussman AL, Bruggeman EE, Viera R, et al.
       Prev Chronic Dis. 2011 Mar;8(2):A35.
       
   • Communicable Diseases
     • Measles and its virus. [French]
       Freymuth F, Dina J, Parent Du Chatelet I, Mourez B, Waku-Kouomou D, Vabret A.
       Virologie. 2011 March;15 (1):6-22.
       
   • Drug Safety
     • Reduction in surface contamination with antineoplastic drugs in 22 hospital pharmacies in the US following implementation of a closed-system drug transfer device
       Sessink PJ, Connor TH, Jorgenson JA, Tyler TG.
       J Oncol Pharm Pract. 2011 Mar;17(1):39-48.
       
   • Health Disparities
     • The effect of race and rural residence on prostate cancer treatment choice among men in Georgia
       Steenland K, Goodman M, Liff J, Diiorio C, Butler S, Roberts P, Smith JL, Ekwueme D, Hall IJ.
       Urology. 2011 Mar;77(3):581-7.
       
   • Injury and Violence
     • X-rated material and perpetration of sexually aggressive behavior among children and adolescents: is there a link?
       Ybarra ML, Mitchell KJ, Hamburger M, Diener-West M, Leaf PJ.
       Aggress Behav. 2011 Jan;37(1):1-18.
       
   • Program Evaluation
     • Estimated effects of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program on breast cancer mortality
       Hoerger TJ, Ekwueme DU, Miller JW, Uzunangelov V, Hall IJ, Segel J, Royalty J, Gardner JG, Smith JL, Li C.
       Am J Prev Med. 2011 Apr;40(4):397-404.
       
   • Vital Statistics
     • 50-year mortality trends in children and young people: a study of 50 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries
       Viner RM, Coffey C, Mathers C, Bloem P, Costello A, Santelli J, Patton GC.
       Lancet. 2011 Mar 28.
       
     • Recent decline in births in the United States, 2007-2009
       Sutton P, Hamilton B, Matthews T.
       NCHS Data Brief. 2011 March;60.
       
   
   
2. CDC Authored Publications
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     1. Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death
        Seshasai SR, Kaptoge S, Thompson A, Di Angelantonio E, Gao P, Sarwar N, Whincup PH, Mukamal KJ, Gillum RF, Holme I, Njolstad I, Fletcher A, Nilsson P, Lewington S, Collins R, Gudnason V, Thompson SG, Sattar N, Selvin E, Hu FB, Danesh J.
        N Engl J Med. 2011 Mar 3;364(9):829-41.
        
   • Communicable Diseases
     2. Poliomyelitis outbreaks in Angola genetically linked to India: risk factors and implications for prevention of outbreaks due to wild poliovirus importations
        Kidd S, Goodson JL, Aramburu J, Morais A, Gaye A, Wannemuehler K, Buffington J, Gerber S, Wassilak S, Uzicanin A.
        Vaccine. 2011 Mar 24.
        
   • Community Health Services
     3. Impact of implementation of free high-quality health care on health facility attendance by sick children in rural western Kenya
        Burgert CR, Bigogo G, Adazu K, Odhiambo F, Buehler J, Breiman RF, Laserson K, Hamel MJ, Feikin DR.
        Trop Med Int Health. 2011 Mar 29.
        
   • Disaster Control and Emergency Services
     4. Evaluating mental health after the 2010 Haitian earthquake
        Safran MA, Chorba T, Schreiber M, Archer WR, Cookson ST.
        Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2011 Mar 28.
        
   • Drug Safety
     5. Exposure to hazardous drugs in healthcare: an issue that will not go away
        Davis J, McLauchlan R, Connor TH.
        J Oncol Pharm Pract. 2011 Mar;17(1):9-13.
        
   • Environmental Health
     6. Perchlorate exposure and dose estimates in infants
        Valentin-Blasini L, Blount BC, Otero-Santos S, Cao Y, Bernbaum JC, Rogan WJ.
        Environ Sci Technol. 2011 Mar 30.
        
     7. Direct measurement of perchlorate exposure biomarkers in a highly exposed population: a pilot study
        English P, Blount B, Wong M, Copan L, Olmedo L, Patton S, Haas R, Atencio R, Xu J, Valentin-Blasini L.
        PLoS ONE. 2011 ;6(3):e17015.
        
   • Epidemiology and Surveillance
     8. Evaluation of a screening tool for bleeding disorders in a US multisite cohort of women with menorrhagia
        Philipp CS, Faiz A, Heit JA, Kouides PA, Lukes A, Stein SF, Byams V, Miller CH, Kulkarni R.
        Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Mar;204(3):209 e1-7.
        
   • Food Safety
     9. Serving high-risk foods in a high-risk setting: survey of hospital food service practices after an outbreak of listeriosis in a hospital
        Cokes C, France AM, Reddy V, Hanson H, Lee L, Kornstein L, Stavinsky F, Balter S.
        Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2011 April;32 (4):380-386.
        
     10. Vibrio furnissii: An unusual cause of bacteremia and skin lesions after ingestion of seafood
         Derber C, Coudron P, Tarr C, Gladney L, Turnsek M, Shankaran S, Wong E.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Mar 30.
         
   • Genetics and Genomics
     11. Strengthening the reporting of genetic risk prediction studies (GRIPS): explanation and elaboration
         Janssens AC, Ioannidis JP, Bedrosian S, Boffetta P, Dolan SM, Dowling N, Fortier I, Freedman AN, Grimshaw JM, Gulcher J, Gwinn M, Hlatky MA, Janes H, Kraft P, Melillo S, O'Donnell CJ, Pencina MJ, Ransohoff D, Schully SD, Seminara D, Winn DM, Wright CF, van Duijn CM, Little J, Khoury MJ.
         Eur J Clin Invest. 2011 Mar 15.
         
     12. The influence of human leukocyte antigen class I alleles and their population frequencies on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 control among African Americans
         Lazaryan A, Song W, Lobashevsky E, Tang J, Shrestha S, Zhang K, McNicholl JM, Gardner LI, Wilson CM, Klein RS, Rompalo A, Mayer K, Sobel J, Kaslow RA.
         Hum Immunol. 2011 Apr;72(4):312-8.
         
     13. Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, and individualized medicine
         Ma Q, Lu AY.
         Pharmacol Rev. 2011 Mar 24.
         
   • Health Behavior and Risk
     14. Determinants of condom use among female sex workers in Kenya: a case-crossover analysis
         Gallo MF, Warner L, Bell AJ, Bukusi EA, Sharma A, Njoroge B, Ngugi E, Jamieson DJ, Eschenbach DA.
         J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2011 Mar 25.
         
   • Immunity and Immunization
     15. Do vaccination strategies implemented by nursing homes narrow the racial gap in receipt of influenza vaccination in the United States?
         Bardenheier B, Shefer A, Ahmed F, Remsburg R, Rowland Hogue CJ, Gravenstein S.
         J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Mar 25.
         
     16. Seasonal influenza vaccine coverage among pregnant women: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
         Ahluwalia IB, Singleton JA, Jamieson DJ, Rasmussen SA, Harrison L.
         J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2011 Mar 25.
         
   • Injury and Violence
     17. Risk factors associated with sexual violence towards girls in Swaziland
         Breiding MJ, Reza A, Gulaid J, Blanton C, Mercy JA, Dahlberg LL, Dlamini N, Bamrah S.
         Bull World Health Organ. 2011 Mar 1;89(3):203-10.
         
     18. Rates of femicide in women of different races, ethnicities, and places of birth: Massachusetts, 1993-2007
         Azziz-Baumgartner E, McKeown L, Melvin P, Dang Q, Reed J.
         J Interpers Violence. 2011 Mar;26(5):1077-90.
         
   • Laboratory Sciences
     19. Characterization of intact antibody-drug conjugates from plasma/serum in vivo by affinity capture capillary liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
         Xu K, Liu L, Saad OM, Baudys J, Williams L, Leipold D, Shen B, Raab H, Junutula JR, Kim A, Kaur S.
         Anal Biochem. 2011 May 1;412(1):56-66.
         
     20. Analysis of 4-aminobiphenyl in smoker's and nonsmoker's urine by tandem mass spectrometry
         Seyler TH, Bernert JT.
         Biomarkers. 2011 Mar 26.
         
     21. Application of hypertonic Sabouraud glucose agar for differentiation of Candida dubliniensis from Candida albicans
         Chowdhary A, Randhawa HS, Kowshik T, Kathuria S, Roy P, Brandt ME.
         Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2011 Apr;69(4):440-2.
         
     22. Towards an integrated human adenovirus designation system that utilizes molecular and serological data and serves both clinical and fundamental virology
         Aoki K, Benko M, Davison AJ, De Jong JC, Echavarria M, Erdman DD, Harrach B, Kajon AE, Schnurr D, Wadell G.
         J Virol. 2011 Mar 30.
         
     23. Poliovirus serotype-specific VP1 sequencing primers
         Kilpatrick DR, Iber JC, Chen Q, Ching K, Yang SJ, De L, Mandelbaum MD, Emery B, Campagnoli R, Burns CC, Kew O.
         J Virol Methods. 2011 Mar 24.
         
     24. Successful respiratory immunization with dry powder live-attenuated measles virus vaccine in rhesus macaques
         Lin WH, Griffin DE, Rota PA, Papania M, Cape SP, Bennett D, Quinn B, Sievers RE, Shermer C, Powell K, Adams RJ, Godin S, Winston S.
         Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Feb 15;108(7):2987-92.
         
     25. Characterization of N-terminal formaldehyde adducts to hemoglobin
         Ospina M, Costin A, Barry AK, Vesper HW.
         Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 2011 Apr 30;25(8):1043-50.
         
     26. Serologic and PCR testing of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome in the United States shows no association with xenotropic or polytropic murine leukemia virus-related viruses
         Satterfield BC, Garcia RA, Jia H, Tang S, Zheng H, Switzer WM.
         Retrovirology. 2011 ;8:12.
         
     27. Low-density microarrays for the detection of Borrelia burgdorferi s.s. (the Lyme disease spirochete) in nymphal Ixodes scapularis
         Houck JA, Hojgaard A, Piesman J, Kuchta RD.
         Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2011 March;2 (1):27-36.
         
     28. Infection of lung epithelial cells with pandemic 2009 A(H1N1) influenza viruses reveals isolate-specific differences in infectivity and host cellular responses
         Patel JR, Vora KP, Tripathi S, Zeng H, Tumpey TM, Katz JM, Sambhara S, Gangappa S.
         Viral Immunol. 2011 Apr;24(2):89-99.
         
   • Occupational Safety and Health
     29. AORN ergonomic tool 1: Lateral transfer of a patient from a stretcher to an OR bed
         Waters T, Baptiste A, Short M, Plante-Mallon L, Nelson A.
         AORN J. 2011 ;93(3):334-339.
         
     30. Research paper: Mortality of US pentachlorophenol production workers through 2005
         Ruder AM, Yiin JH.
         Chemosphere. 2011 Mar 24.
         
     31. Maternal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and the secondary sex ratio: an occupational cohort study
         Rocheleau CM, Bertke SJ, Deddens JA, Ruder AM, Lawson CC, Waters MA, Hopf NB, Riggs MA, Whelan EA.
         Environ Health. 2011 Mar 18;10(1):20.
         
     32. Environmental tobacco smoke exposure among casino dealers
         Achutan C, West C, Mueller C, Bernert JT, Bernard B.
         J Occup Environ Med. 2011 Mar 22.
         
   • Physical Activity
     33. Effect of exercise on cognitive performance in community-dwelling older adults: review of intervention trials and recommendations for public health practice and research
         Snowden M, Steinman L, Mochan K, Grodstein F, Prohaska TR, Thurman DJ, Brown DR, Laditka JN, Soares J, Zweiback DJ, Little D, Anderson LA.
         J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Mar 25.
         
   • Public Health Leadership and Management
     34. Improving antimicrobial stewardship: the evolution of programmatic strategies and barriers
         Johannsson B, Beekmann SE, Srinivasan A, Hersh AL, Laxminarayan R, Polgreen PM.
         Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2011 April;32 (4):367-374.
         
     35. A qualitative analysis of lung cancer screening practices by primary care physicians
         Henderson S, Degroff A, Richards TB, Kish-Doto J, Soloe C, Heminger C, Rohan E.
         J Community Health. 2011 Mar 26.
         
   • Reproductive Health
     36. Why the Pap test? Awareness and use of the Pap test among women in the United States
         Hawkins NA, Cooper CP, Saraiya M, Gelb CA, Polonec L.
         J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2011 Mar 28.
         
   • Zoonoses
     37. Trends in antifungal drug susceptibility of Cryptococcus neoformans obtained through population-based surveillance, South Africa, 2002-2003 and 2007-2008
         Govender NP, Patel J, van Wyk M, Chiller TM, Lockhart SR.
         Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Mar 28.
         
     38. Fusarium falciforme vertebral abscess and osteomyelitis: case report and molecular classification
         Edupuganti S, Rouphael N, Mehta A, Eaton M, Heller JG, Bressler A, Brandt M, O'Donnell K.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Mar 30.
         
   
   
3. Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions - Colorectal Cancer
     39. A system-based intervention to improve colorectal cancer screening uptake
         Hoffman RM, Steel SR, Yee EF, Massie L, Schrader RM, Moffett ML, Murata GH.
         Am J Manag Care. 2011 Jan;17(1):49-55.
         
     40. The association between state mandates of colorectal cancer screening coverage and colorectal cancer screening utilization among US adults aged 50 to 64 years with health insurance
         Cokkinides V, Bandi P, Shah M, Virgo K, Ward E.
         BMC Health Serv Res. 2011 ;11:19.
         
     41. Effectiveness of a patient and practice-level colorectal cancer screening intervention in health plan members: the CHOICE trial
         Pignone M, Winquist A, Schild LA, Lewis C, Scott T, Hawley J, Rimer BK, et al.
         Cancer. 2011 Feb 11.
         
     42. Expanding colorectal cancer screening among minority women
         Shike M, Schattner M, Genao A, Grant W, Burke M, Zauber A, Russo L, et al.
         Cancer. 2011 Jan 1;117(1):70-6.
         
     43. Physicians' colorectal cancer screening discussion and recommendation patterns
         Zapka JM, Klabunde CN, Arora NK, Yuan G, Smith JL, Kobrin SC.
         Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Mar;20(3):509-21.
         
     44. Colorectal cancer mortality prevented by use and attributable to nonuse of colonoscopy
         Stock C, Knudsen AB, Lansdorp-Vogelaar I, Haug U, Brenner H.
         Gastrointest Endosc. 2011 Mar;73(3):435-443 e5.
         
     45. A survey of Indian Health Service and tribal health providers' colorectal cancer screening knowledge, perceptions, and practices
         Haverkamp D, Perdue DG, Espey D, Cobb N.
         J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2011 ;22(1):243-57.
         
     46. Patient numeracy, perceptions of provider communication, and colorectal cancer screening utilization
         Ciampa PJ, Osborn CY, Peterson NB, Rothman RL.
         J Health Commun. 2011 ;15 Suppl 3:157-68.
         
     47. Development of a community-based participatory colorectal cancer screening intervention to address disparities, Arkansas, 2008-2009
         Yeary K, Flowers E, Ford G, Burroughs D, Burton J, Woods D, Stewart C, et al.
         Prev Chronic Dis. 2011 Mar;8(2):A47.
         
   
   
4. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media
   • MMWR in the Media
     48. CDC Grand Rounds: Chlamydia prevention: challenges and strategies for reducing disease burden and sequelae
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 April 1;60(12):370-373.
         
     49. Tetanus surveillance - United States, 2001-2008
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 April 1;60(12):365-369.
         
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     50. Protection from retinopathy and other complications in patients with type 1 diabetes of extreme duration: the Joslin 50-year Medalist study
         Sun J, Keenan H, Cavallerano J, Asztalos B, Schaefer E, Sell D, Strauch C, Monnier V, Doria A, Aiello L, King G.
         Diabetes Care. 2011 Apr ;34(4):968-974.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     51. Trends in ectopic pregnancy mortality in the United States: 1980-2007
         Creanga A, Shapiro-Mendoza C, Bish C, Zane S, Berg C, Callaghan W.
         Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Apr;117(4):837-43.
         
   • Nutritional Sciences
     52. Vitamin D status: United States, 2001-2006
         Looker AC, Johnson CL, Lacher DA, Pfeiffer CM, Schleicher RL, Sempos CT.
         NCHS Data Brief. 2011 March ;59.
         
   
   

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