1. CDC Vital Signs
   • Alcohol-Impaired Driving
     1. *Alcohol-impaired driving and its consequences in the United States: the past 25 years
        Williams AF.
        J Safety Res. 2006 ;37(2):123-38.
        
     2. *Preventing traffic injuries: strategies that work
        Dellinger A, Sleet DA.
        Am J Lifestyle Med. 2010 ;4(1):82-89.
        
     3. *Motor vehicle-related injury prevention: reducing alcohol-impaired driving
        Task Force on Community Preventive Services.
        Guide to Community Preventive Services. 2011 .
        
     4. *Traffic safety facts 2009 data: alcohol-impaired driving
        National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
        . 2009 .
        
     5. 2010 Traffic Safety Culture Index
        American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety.
        . 2010 .
        
     6. Alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults, 1993-2002
        Quinlan KP, Brewer RD, Siegel P, Sleet DA, Mokdad AH, Shults RA, Flowers N.
        Am J Prev Med. 2005 May;28(4):346-50.
        
     7. Association between state level drinking and driving countermeasures and self reported alcohol impaired driving
        Shults RA, Sleet DA, Elder RW, Ryan GW, Sehgal M.
        Inj Prev. 2002 Jun;8(2):106-10.
        
     8. DUI/DWI laws: August 2011
        Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
        . 2011 .
        
     9. Vital signs: binge drinking among high school students and adults --- United States, 2009
        Kanny D.
        MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010 Oct 8;59(39):1274-9.
        
     10. Toward understanding the recent large reductions in U.S. road fatalities
         Sivak M, Schoettle B.
         Traffic Inj Prev. 2010 Dec;11(6):561-6.
         
   
   
2. CDC Authored Articles
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     11. Matrix metalloproteinases, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases, and heart failure outcomes
         Bhalla V, Georgiopoulou VV, Azeem AA, Marti CN, Cole RT, Laskar SR, De Staercke C, Hooper WC, Smith AL, Kalogeropoulos AP, Butler J.
         Int J Cardiol. 2011 Sep 1;151(2):237-9.
         
     12. Adherence to guidelines for youths with diabetes mellitus
         Waitzfelder B, Pihoker C, Klingensmith G, Case D, Anderson A, Bell RA, Lawrence JM, Mayer-Davis EJ, Imperatore G, Standiford D, Rodriguez BL, Dabelea D, Seid M.
         Pediatrics. 2011 Aug 22.
         
     13. Factors associated with emergency medical services scope of practice for acute cardiovascular events
         Williams I, Valderrama AL, Bolton P, Greek A, Greer S, Patterson DG, Zhang Z.
         Prehosp Emerg Care. 2011 Sep 27.
         
   • Communicable Diseases
     14. CD4 cell counts at HIV diagnosis among HIV outpatient study participants, 2000-2009
         Buchacz K, Armon C, Palella FJ, Baker RK, Tedaldi E, Durham MD, Brooks JT.
         AIDS Res Treat. 2012 ;2012:869841.
         
     15. Caveat emptor? Control of latent tuberculosis infection in the United States
         Schwartzman K, Cain KP.
         Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011 Sep 1;184(5):501-2.
         
     16. Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV: emerging behavioral and health needs for long-term survivors
         Koenig LJ, Nesheim S, Abramowitz S.
         Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Oct;23(5):321-7.
         
     17. Life-threatening pneumonia caused by macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae
         Hsieh YC, Tsao KC, Huang CG, Tong S, Winchell JM, Huang YC, Shia SH, Lai SH, Lin TY.
         Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011 Sep 21.
         
     18. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
         MacNeil A, Nichol ST, Spiropoulou CF.
         Virus Res. 2011 Sep 17.
         
   • Disease Reservoirs and Vectors
     19. Cryptococcus gattii: where do we go from here?
         Harris J, Lockhart S, Chiller T.
         Med Mycol. 2011 Sep 22.
         
     20. South American Plasmodium falciparum after the malaria eradication era: clonal population expansion and survival of the fittest hybrids
         Griffing SM, Mixson-Hayden T, Sridaran S, Alam MT, McCollum AM, Cabezas C, Marquino Quezada W, Barnwell JW, Macedo De Oliveira A, Lucas C, Arrospide N, Escalante AA, Bacon DJ, Udhayakumar V.
         PLoS One. 2011 ;6(9):e23486.
         
   • Environmental Health
     21. Dioxin exposure and age of pubertal onset among Russian boys
         Korrick SA, Lee MM, Williams PL, Sergeyev O, Burns JS, Patterson DG, Turner WE, Needham LL, Altshul L, Revich B, Hauser R.
         Environ Health Perspect. 2011 Sep;119(9):1339-44.
         
     22. Impact of the improved Patsari biomass stove on urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biomarkers and carbon monoxide exposures in rural Mexican women
         Riojas-Rodriguez H, Schilmann A, Marron-Mares AT, Masera O, Li Z, Romanoff L, Sjodin A, Rojas-Bracho L, Needham LL, Romieu I.
         Environ Health Perspect. 2011 Sep;119(9):1301-7.
         
     23. Exposure to PBDEs in the office environment: evaluating the relationships between dust, handwipes, and serum
         Watkins DJ, McClean MD, Fraser AJ, Weinberg J, Stapleton HM, Sjodin A, Webster TF.
         Environ Health Perspect. 2011 Sep;119(9):1247-52.
         
   • Epidemiology and Surveillance
     24. Joint associations between genetic variants and reproductive factors in glioma risk among women
         Wang SS, Hartge P, Yeager M, Carreon T, Ruder AM, Linet M, Inskip PD, Black A, Hsing AW, Alavanja M, Beane-Freeman L, Safaiean M, Chanock SJ, Rajaraman P.
         Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Sep 13.
         
     25. Standards for epidemiologic studies and surveillance of epilepsy
         Thurman DJ, Beghi E, Begley CE, Berg AT, Buchhalter JR, Ding D, Hesdorffer DC, Hauser WA, Kazis L, Kobau R, Kroner B, Labiner D, Liow K, Logroscino G, Medina MT, Newton CR, Parko K, Paschal A, Preux PM, Sander JW, Selassie A, Theodore W, Tomson T, Wiebe S.
         Epilepsia. 2011 September;52 (SUPPL. 7):2-26.
         
     26. Down syndrome: national conference on patient registries, research databases, and biobanks
         Oster-Granite ML, Parisi MA, Abbeduto L, Berlin DS, Bodine C, Bynum D, Capone G, Collier E, Hall D, Kaeser L, Kaufmann P, Krischer J, Livingston M, McCabe LL, Pace J, Pfenninger K, Rasmussen SA, Reeves RH, Rubinstein Y, Sherman S, Terry SF, Siewhitten M, Williams S, McCabe ER, Maddox YT.
         Mol Genet Metab. 2011 Sep-Oct;104(1-2):13-22.
         
   • Food Safety
     27. New food safety training opportunity using cutting edge technology!
         Selman C.
         J Environ Health. 2011 Sep;74(2):30-1.
         
   • Genetics and Genomics
     28. Genome sequences for five strains of the emerging pathogen Haemophilus haemolyticus
         Jordan IK, Conley AB, Antonov IV, Arthur RA, Cook ED, Cooper GP, Jones BL, Knipe KM, Lee KJ, Liu X, Mitchell GJ, Pande PR, Petit RA, Qin S, Rajan VN, Sarda S, Sebastian A, Tang S, Thapliyal R, Varghese NJ, Ye T, Katz LS, Wang X, Rowe L, Frace M, Mayer LW.
         J Bacteriol. 2011 Oct;193(20):5879-80.
         
     29. Evaluation of intra-host variants of the entire hepatitis B virus genome
         Ramachandran S, Zhai X, Thai H, Campo DS, Xia G, Ganova-Raeva LM, Drobeniuc J, Khudyakov YE.
         PLoS One. 2011 ;6(9):e25232.
         
   • Health Behavior and Risk
     30. High-risk behaviour in steady and in casual relationships among men who have sex with men in Israel
         Mor Z, Davidovich U, Bessudu-Manor N, McFarlane M, Feldshtein G, Chemtob D.
         Sex Transm Infect. 2011 Oct;87(6):532-7.
         
   • Health Communication and Education
     31. Characteristics of parents receiving counseling from child's doctor to limit child's sugar drink consumption
         Park S, Sherry B, Blanck HM.
         J Public Health (Oxf). 2011 Sep 26.
         
   • Immunity and Immunization
     32. Increases in vaccination coverage of healthcare personnel following institutional requirements for influenza vaccination: a national survey of US hospitals
         Miller BL, Ahmed F, Lindley MC, Wortley PM.
         Vaccine. 2011 Sep 21.
         
     33. Development of DENVax: A chimeric dengue-2 PDK-53-based tetravalent vaccine for protection against dengue fever
         Osorio JE, Huang CY, Kinney RM, Stinchcomb DT.
         Vaccine. 2011 Sep 23;29(42):7251-60.
         
     34. Next generation dengue vaccines: a review of candidates in preclinical development
         Schmitz J, Roehrig J, Barrett A, Hombach J.
         Vaccine. 2011 Sep 23;29(42):7276-84.
         
     35. Overview of the Clinical Consult Case Review of adverse events following immunization: Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) network 2004-2009
         Williams SE, Klein NP, Halsey N, Dekker CL, Baxter RP, Marchant CD, Larussa PS, Sparks RC, Tokars JI, Pahud BA, Aukes L, Jakob K, Coronel S, Choi H, Slade BA, Edwards KM.
         Vaccine. 2011 Sep 16;29(40):6920-7.
         
   • Laboratory Sciences
     36. Comparative safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of several anti-H5N1 influenza experimental vaccines in a mouse and chicken models (Testing of killed and live H5 vaccine)
         Gambaryan AS, Lomakina NF, Boravleva EY, Kropotkina EA, Mashin VV, Krasilnikov IV, Klimov AI, Rudenko LG.
         Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2011 Sep 23.
         
     37. A novel multi-target real-time PCR assay for the rapid diagnosis of Bordetella species in clinical specimens
         Tatti KM, Sparks KN, Boney KO, Tondella ML.
         J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Sep 21.
         
     38. Bipolar diffusion charging of high-aspect ratio aerosols
         Ku BK, Deye GJ, Kulkarni P, Baron PA.
         J Electrostat. 2011 .
         
     39. Structural gene (prME) chimeras of St. Louis encephalitis virus and West Nile virus exhibit altered in vitro cytopathic and growth phenotypes
         Maharaj PD, Anishchenko M, Langevin SA, Fang Y, Reisen WK, Brault AC.
         J Gen Virol. 2011 Sep 21.
         
     40. Twenty-four hour human urine and serum profiles of bisphenol A during high-dietary exposure
         Teeguarden JG, Calafat AM, Ye X, Doerge DR, Churchwell MI, Gunawan R, Graham MK.
         Toxicol Sci. 2011 Sep;123(1):48-57.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     41. Do foreign- and U.S.-born mothers across racial/ethnic groups have a similar risk profile for selected sociodemographic and periconceptional factors?
         Ramadhani TA, Canfield MA, Farag NH, Royle M, Correa A, Waller DK, Scheuerle A.
         Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2011 Sep;91(9):823-830.
         
     42. A national profile of health care and family impacts of children with muscular dystrophy and special health care needs in the United States
         Ouyang L, Grosse SD, Fox MH, Bolen J.
         J Child Neurol. 2011 Sep 27.
         
   • Occupational Safety and Health
     43. Maternal occupational pesticide exposure and risk of hypospadias in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
         Rocheleau CM, Romitti PA, Sanderson WT, Sun L, Lawson CC, Waters MA, Stewart PA, Olney RS, Reefhuis J.
         Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2011 Sep 22.
         
     44. Exposure characterization of metal oxide nanoparticles in the workplace
         Curwin B, Bertke S.
         J Occup Environ Hyg. 2011 Oct;8(10):580-7.
         
   • Vital Statistics
     45. Deaths: leading causes for 2007
         Heron M.
         Natl Vital Stat Rep. 2011 Aug 26;59(8):1-95.
         
     46. Feasibility of using a World Health Organization-standard methodology for Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy (SAVVY) to report leading causes of death in Zambia: results of a pilot in four provinces, 2010
         Mudenda SS, Kamocha S, Mswia R, Conkling M, Sikanyiti P, Potter D, Mayaka WC, Marx MA.
         Popul Health Metr. 2011 ;9:40.
         
   
   
3. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media
   • MMWR in the Media
     47. Clusters of acute respiratory illness associated with human enterovirus 68 - Asia, Europe, and United States, 2008 - 2010
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 September 30;60(38):1301-1304.
         
     48. Current cigarette smoking prevalence among working adults - United States, 2004 - 2010
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Sept 20;60(38):1305-1309.
         
     49. FDA approval of expanded age indication for a tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Sep 23;60:1279-80.
         
     50. Notes from the field: measles among U.S.- bound refugees from Malaysia - California, Maryland, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, August - September 2011
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Sep 23;60:1281-2.
         
     51. Progress in implementing measles mortality reduction strategies - India, 2010 - 2011
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 September 30;60(38):1315-1319.
         
     52. Severe illness from 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) - Utah, 2009 - 10, influenza season
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Sept 30;60(28):1310-1314.
         
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     53. Fatherhood and the risk of cardiovascular mortality in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study
         Eisenberg ML, Park Y, Hollenbeck AR, Lipshultz LI, Schatzkin A, Pletcher MJ.
         Hum Reprod. 2011 Sep 26.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     54. Relationships between hours of sleep and health-risk behaviors in US adolescent students
         McKnight-Eily LR, Eaton DK, Lowry R, Croft JB, Presley-Cantrell L, Perry GS.
         Prev Med. 2011 Aug 5.
         
   
   

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