WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said he appointed New York City Health Department Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden as director of the Centers for Disease Control.

ATLANTA, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Most sexual assault programs focus on repeated sexual victimization, but U.S. government programs try to prevent violence before it occurs, officials said.

ATLANTA, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, says she is leaving her post to make way for President-elect Barack Obama's team.

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Influenza and its potential complication pneumonia are the third leading cause of death in New York City, but preventable with a flu shot, officials said.

ATLANTA, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Bill Gimson, chief operating officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is going to Iraq on temporary assignment.

NEW YORK, March 24 (UPI) -- Tuberculosis has hit historic lows in the United States, but public health authorities say there's an increase in TB cases resistant to several drugs.

ATLANTA, April 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added four coordinating centers and two national offices as part of a major reorganization.

ATLANTA, June 4 (UPI) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has lifted its ban on adoptions from the Zhuzhou Child Welfare Institute in China's Hunan Province.

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A man visiting New York City from New Mexico has been hospitalized with bubonic plague, the first such case in the city in a century, health officials said Wedn

WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- House Appropriations Committee members Thursday peppered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's acting director with sometimes hostile queries regarding the Bush administration's 2003 budget request for the agency. Topics faced by Dr. David Flem