CDC Expert Commentary

This special series of commentaries, interviews, and slideshows is part of a collaboration between CDC and Medscape. This content is designed to deliver CDC's authoritative guidance directly to Medscape's physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.

Expert Commentaries

Alpha-Gal Syndrome: 5 Things to Know A tick bite — primarily a long star tick — can cause an allergy to red meat and other products containing alpha-gal.
CDC Expert Commentary, December 2024
What to Know About Sexually Transmitted Ringworm Sexually transmitted ringworm affects part of the body involved with sexual contact and can cause more severe infections.
CDC Expert Commentary, December 2024
Communicating Benefits of Prenatal Vaccination to Patients Vaccination coverage in pregnant people remains suboptimal. As the virus season continues, learn how to communicate the importance of prenatal vaccination to pregnant patients in your care.
CDC Expert Commentary, December 2024
It’s Not Too Late for Influenza Vaccination Dr Lisa Grohskopf weighs in with what providers need to know regarding recommendations for influenza vaccination in the United States.
CDC Expert Commentary, November 2024
This Holiday Season, Protect Yourself and Your Patients Dr Mandy Cohen, director of the CDC, urges healthcare providers to get vaccinated and to share vaccination guidance with patients.
CDC Expert Commentary, November 2024
Milliliter-Only Dosing Reduces Liquid Medication Errors The American Academy of Pediatrics released a new statement that translates recommendations for milliliter-only prescribing into concrete actions to reduce medication errors in pediatric patients.
CDC Expert Commentary, November 2024
Rising Mycoplasma pneumoniae Cases in Young Children Medscape Medical News spoke with the CDC's Adam L. Cohen, MD, MPH, about what healthcare providers need to know about the increased number and severity of cases in young patients in the United States.
CDC Expert Commentary, November 2024
RSV Immunization Recommendations for 2024 CDC experts share what healthcare providers should know about RSV vaccine recommendations for patients vulnerable to infection.
CDC Expert Commentary, October 2024
H5N1 Bird Flu: What You Need to Know Medscape spoke with CDC’s Tim Uyeki about the rise in human H5N1 bird flu cases and Cara Drehoff about the response to a cluster of cases in Colorado poultry workers.
CDC Expert Commentary, October 2024
Hypertension in Pregnancy: 5 Things Clinicians Should Know Janet Wright, MD, director of CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, shares how clinicians can better improve detection and management of hypertension during pregnancy.
CDC Expert Commentary, October 2024
Rising Human Parvovirus Cases: What to Know Medscape spoke with the CDC's Alfonso Hernández-Romieu about what providers need to know about rising human parvovirus B19 cases across the United States.
CDC Expert Commentary, October 2024
Transforming Public Health Data Systems Post-Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need to modernize public health data systems. Health providers play a key role, says CDC's Dr. Jennifer Layden.
CDC Expert Commentary, October 2024
5 Things to Know About Dengue Dengue is a potential new risk for patients, especially those who travel to and from Puerto Rico. Here's what you need to know.
CDC Expert Commentary, September 2024
Protecting Children From Unintentional Medication Ingestion Healthcare professionals can help prevent these incidents by counseling and educating parents and caregivers on safe medicine storage practices.
CDC Expert Commentary, August 2024
Considering a Taper for a Patient Receiving Opioid Therapy Test your knowledge about tapering opioid therapy with this interactive quiz.
CDC Expert Commentary, July 2024

Infant Outcomes of Zika: New Data New CDC data on more than 1400 infants reveal the adverse outcomes found in infants exposed to Zika in utero.
CDC Expert Commentary, November 2018
Ocular Findings in Congenital Zika Infection Images show the range of ocular manifestations in infants with congenital Zika infection.
CDC Expert Commentary, May 2018
Illnesses Linked to Contact With Pets and Farm Animals We love our animals, but occasionally they transmit some fairly serious pathogens, so precautions must be taken.
CDC Expert Commentary, March 2018
Where Art Meets Science: A Lens on the CDC Over a career spanning more than three decades, CDC photographer Jim Gathany has taken some stellar photos of deadly pathogens, flying vectors of disease, and CDC professionals at work.
CDC Expert Commentary, July 2017
What Foods Are Making People Sick? Recent Major Outbreaks This quick review by CDC highlights the country's major outbreaks of foodborne illness in recent months.
CDC Expert Commentary, June 2017
An Alarming Trend: Multistate Foodborne Illness Outbreaks When a foodborne illness affects multiple states, it can be harder to trace and more severe.
CDC Expert Commentary, June 2016
Foodborne Illness Outbreaks: Most Wanted List Have we done enough to prevent foodborne illness, or are we doomed to experience the same kind of outbreaks that we have seen in the past few years?
CDC Expert Commentary, May 2015
Hepatitis C: 25 Years From Discovery to Cure Explore this timeline to learn more about the highlights and milestones from the past 25 years of hepatitis C, from its discovery in 1989 to essentially its cure in 2014.
CDC Expert Commentary, November 2014
Neglected Parasitic Infections in the United States Do you know which 5 parasitic infections are often underrecognized in the United States?
CDC Expert Commentary, May 2014
Risks From Pets and Pet Food Provide your patients with updated information on the prevention of animal-related enteric zoonoses to ensure that they are able to enjoy their pets without getting sick!
CDC Expert Commentary, December 2013

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