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The swine flu outbreak has put the Centers for Disease Control in the news lately, but in addition to monitoring outbreaks of infectious diseases, the CDC also conducts the National Health Interview Survey, which tries to keep up with demographic trends and gather data that typically isn't picked up in by the every-decade efforts of the Census Bureau. And the results of a new CDC survey highlight just how much mobile technology is… Read More

We know this seems like an odd agency to be conducting a survey of telephone usage, but the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued the results of its National Health Interview Survey (PDF) that 25.2 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 24 years live in households which only use wireless telephones—and that number jumps to nearly 30 percent of adults aged 25 to 29. Overall, the CDC found that at least… Read More