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Nearly 14 million U.S. women binge drink about three times a month at an average of six drinks per binge, health officials say.
U.S. teens and adults ages 13-24 represent more than a quarter of new HIV infections each year, but 6-in-10 are unaware they are infected, officials say.
It is illegal to drink and drive for those ages 16-21 in all states, but 1-of-10 U.S. high school students admit doing it, officials say.
Doctors should roll up their sleeves and make blood pressure control a priority every day, with every patient, at every visit, a U.S. health official says.
In 2011, nearly 30 percent of U.S. high-school males and 18 percent of high-school females used some form of tobacco, federal health officials said.
Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults say they walked at least once for 10 minutes or more in the last week in 2010, compared to 56 percent in 2005, officials say.
The prescription drug methadone was involved in more than 30 percent of U.S. prescription painkiller overdose deaths in 2009, health officials said.
Less than half of U.S. adults received key health preventive services such as screenings, consultations and prescriptions before 2010, officials say.
More than 400,000 unique visitors have visited the U.S. government's Web site designed to help people quit smoking, health officials said.
Annual medical, productivity and other costs saved from the motorcycle helmet law in California was $394 million in 2010, a U.S. health official said.
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