CDC Featured Podcasts

In this podcast, moving personal stories help inform parents about the dangers of flu to children and the benefits of vaccination.

In this podcast, Dr. Richard C. Hunt, Director of the CDC’s Division of Injury Response, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control provides a brief overview for health care providers on how to respond and care for persons injured by an explosion or blast event.

Each year, nearly 500 die, while as many as 20,000 visit emergency rooms for exposure to carbon monoxide.

In this podcast, Dr. Mary Jean Brown, chief of CDC's Lead Poisoning and Prevention Program, discusses the importance of testing children for lead poisoning, who should be tested, and what parents can do to prevent lead poisoning.

In this podcast, Dr. Maria Doa, Director of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Program Chemicals Division, discusses EPA's new rule for renovations, repairs, and painting activities. The new rule includes information on lead-safe work practices when conducting renovations, repairs, and painting in pre-1978 homes and schools to prevent the spread of lead dust.

CDC recognized the impact of developmental disabilities and invested in a campaign to help parents measure their children's progress by monitoring how they play, learn, speak, and act.

This podcast answers questions from the public about appropriate antibiotic use.

This podcast is for a general audience and gives information about sickle cell disease.

This short video podcast offers a lighter look at the trials of being a new parent.

This podcast discusses steps you can take to be safer and healthier at college.

This podcast includes the phone number for a national hotline resource.

In this podcast, parents talk with real teens before dating, stay involved in their lives, and role model to help young people develop healthy, respectful relationships.

Head lice are a fairly common problem, especially in preschool and elementary school children. This podcast will help you understand how people get head lice, and how to get rid of them!

Este podcast está dirigido a los pacientes y visitantes del hospital. El video pone énfasis en dos puntos cruciales para ayudar a prevenir infecciones: la importancia de practicar la higiene de las manos durante la estancia en el hospital y el hecho de que es apropiado recordar a los profesionales de la salud que practiquen esta higiene.

This podcast is for hospital patients and visitors. It emphasizes two key points to help prevent infections: the importance of practicing hand hygiene while in the hospital, and that it's appropriate to ask or remind healthcare providers to practice hand hygiene.