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- Veterans' health is the subject of this week's QuickStats.
- New report presents national estimates of contraceptive use among women of childbearing age (15–44 years) in 2006–2010. Selected comparisons are made with 1995 data to describe changes in contraceptive use and in method choice over time.
- New report presents National Hospital Discharge Survey data from 2000 through 2010 on hospitalizations for congestive heart failure.
- New report updates subnational estimates of the percentage of adults and children living in households without a landline telephone but with at least one wireless telephone.
- What percent of hospitalizations end in death? What are the patterns of selected diagnoses? You can find out in this week’s QuickStats.
- New report describes the consumption of diet beverages among the U.S. population during 2009‒2010 by sex, age, race and ethnicity, and income, and details trends in diet drink consumption from 1999‒2000 through 2009‒2010.
- New report presents preliminary U.S. data on deaths, death rates, life expectancy, leading causes of death, and infant mortality for 2011 by selected characteristics such as age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin.
- A new report from NHANES explores the use of automated oscillometric blood pressure devices as an alternative to standard mercury sphygmomanometers.
- This week's QuickStats shows locality is an important factor in health insurance.
- New report presents nationally representative estimates and trends for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing among the U.S. household population aged 15–44.
- Latest report presents preliminary data for 2011 on births in the United States.
- New report examines the most recent national data on hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control.
- How many Americans can't get prescription drugs due to cost? Find out in this week's QuickStats.
- New report examines the comparability between the rates of inpatient procedures for persons aged 65 and over using the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and Medicare claims data.
- Early Release from the National Health Interview Survey updates estimates for 15 selected health measures based on data from the January–March 2012 survey and presents estimates from 1997 through 2011 for comparison.
- New report presents the most recent national estimates of obesity in older adults, by sex, age, race and ethnicity, and educational attainment, and examines changes in the prevalence of obesity between 1999 and 2010.
- Latest report presents complete period life tables for the United States by race, Hispanic origin, and sex, based on age-specific death rates in 2008.
- This week's QuickStats looks at death rates from complications of medical and surgical care.
- New report presents selected trends in physician shortage measures and access to care measures for generalist physicians and specialists.
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