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

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
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
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
5 Things to Know When Prescribing Topical Antifungals Overuse of topical antifungals, particularly combination antifungal-steroids, can cause adverse effects and drive resistance. Here's what you need to know about judicious use of these medications.
CDC Expert Commentary, July 2024
Initiating a Naloxone Discussion in Opioid-Managed Knee Pain Test your knowledge about the opioid reversal drug naloxone with this interactive quiz.
CDC Expert Commentary, June 2024
Navigating a Patient's Concerns About Managing Low Back Pain A woman presents with persistent back pain that has worsened over the past 6 weeks. How would you treat this patient?
CDC Expert Commentary, May 2024
5 Things to Know: COVID-19 Vaccines for Immunocompromised People CDC experts share what clinicians should know about COVID-19 prevention in immunocompromised patients.
CDC Expert Commentary, May 2024
Q&A: Antiseptic Soap and Nasal Decolonization Infection prevention expert Susan Huang, MD, MPH, shares takeaway points from an intervention to reduce infections and hospitalizations among nursing home residents.
CDC Expert Commentary, May 2024
What to Know About COVID Rebound The CDC's Pragna Patel, MD, MPH, and Dallas Smith, PharmD, answer common questions on COVID-19 rebound cases and antiviral treatment.
CDC Expert Commentary, February 2024
Can You Identify That Pediatric Rash? Test your diagnostic and treatment skills using this patient scenario and corresponding questions.
CDC Expert Commentary, February 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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