Invitation to the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2022) [CDC Preview]

[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)].

The CDC Prevention Strategy

The mission of CDC is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. As the nation’s prevention agency, CDC accomplishes its mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world to monitor health, formulate prevention strategies, develop sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote healthy behaviors,...

CDC Grand Rounds: Global Tobacco Control

During the 20th century, use of tobacco products contributed to the deaths of 100 million persons worldwide. In 2011, approximately 6 million additional deaths were linked to tobacco use, the world's leading underlying cause of death, responsible for more deaths each year than human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), tuberculosis, and malaria combined. One thi...

Comprehensive disease control (CDC): what does achieving CDC mean for patients with rheumatoid arthritis?

BACKGROUND This study assessed the impact of simultaneous achievement of clinical, functional and structural efficacy, herein referred to as comprehensive disease control (CDC), on short-term and long-term work-related outcomes, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), pain and fatigue. METHODS Data were pooled from three randomised trials of adalimumab plus methotrexate for treatment of early...

Alex Langmuir and CDC

Anna Beltrame,* Maurizio Ruscio,† Barbara Cruciatti,‡ Angela Londero,* Vito Di Piazza,§ Roberto Copetti,§ Valentino Moretti,† Paolo Rossi,¶ Gian Luigi Gigli,¶ Luigia Scudeller,* and Pierluigi Viale* *University of Udine, Udine, Italy; †Hospital of San Daniele, San Daniele, Italy; ‡Hospital of Pordenone, Pordenone, Italy; §San Antonio Abate Hospital, Tolmezzo, Italy; and ¶Hospital of Udine, Udin...