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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a dramatic decline in drunk driving incidents, the lowest in two decades, most likely caused by the current state of the U.S. economy.

Cantaloupes contaminated with listeria have now killed 15 people and sickened 84 in an outbreak that has lasted for more than two months, the Centers for Disease Control said on Friday.

Fifteen people are now confirmed dead and another 84 sickened in the recent listeriosis outbreak in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

The latest listeria outbreak in cantaloupe melon is the deadliest of its kind to have hit the United States in the past decade. 16 lives have been lost and more cases are being reported by the day, but what are the causes and what symptoms should we be looking out for?

The CDC's Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project, funded by the Affordable Care Act, aims to develop programs to combat childhood obesity in low-income areas.

As of Sept. 27, 72 people from 18 states have been infected with a rare illness called listeriosis stemming from Listeria monocytogenes bacteria linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As officials scramble to stop a growing listeria outbreak from contaminated cantaloupes, a supermarket chain has also found the bacteria in spinach dip.

A listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupe has sickened 72 people and killed between 13 and 16, making it the deadliest food-borne outbreak in the United States in more than a decade -- and the toll is expected to rise in October.

The death toll caused by Listeria increased to 16, reports CBS News.

At least 13 people in eight U.S. states have died as a result of a listeria outbreak from contaminated cantaloupes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

More children are coming to the emergency room after accidentally overdosing on medication, according to a study from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The Centers for Disease Control attributes more than 70,000 emergency room visits each year to accidental child overdoses, and the number is increasing at an alarming rate.

New rates of lung cancer cases among men and women in the United States dropped in 35 states and six states, respectively, between 1999 and 2008, according to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said all 115 flu deaths that took place between Sept. 1, 2010 and Aug. 31, 2011 could effectively be prevented with influenza vaccine.

115 children and teenagers died from flu last year, according to CDC.

The New Mexico Environment Department on Wednesday issued the first recall notice to state produce retailers, requesting that all Listeria-tainted cantaloupes fruit be pulled from shelves after an outbreak warning was issued Monday.

A continued investigation into a listeriosis, or listeria, outbreak that has killed at least one person has expanded to include six states where possibly tainted cantaloupe were consumed, Colorado health officials said Wednesday.

About 366 million people worldwide have diabetes and a person dies from it every seven seconds, world health officials said on Tuesday.

In the new film Contagion, a rapidly evolving virus threatens to wipe out global society and federal health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose staffers served as extras, must save the world from the killer outbreak.

Norovirus remained the most common food-borne disease in 2008, but more people were hospitalized for Salmonella poisoning than any other food-related illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says in its annual report on food-borne illness.

Although a new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found cigarette smoking in the U.S declined by almost two percent between 2005 and 2010, the rate of reduction is lower than it was throughout the previous 40 years.

The number of American adult smokers has declined by about 1.5 percent, or 3 million people, from 2005 to 2010, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fewer American adults are smoking cigarettes, and those who still smoke have cut back on the number of cigarettes they smoke, but the rate of decline has begun to slow, health experts said on Tuesday.

A tick-borne infection known as Babesiosis, which can cause severe disease and even death, is becoming a growing threat to the U.S. blood supply, government researchers said on Monday.

A tick-borne infection known as Babesiosis, which can cause severe disease and even death, is becoming a growing threat to the U.S. blood supply, according to a 31-year-old study led by government researchers.

One in four Americans currently suffers from mental illness

Nearly half of all Americans will suffer some form of mental health problem during their lifetime, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, stating must be done to help them.

This could be an outbreak of a new Swine Flu strain, with the health officials announcing second case of swine-flu striking in Pennsylvania followed by Indiana case.

Teen vaccination rates for human papillomavirus (HPV) are trailing behind for two other vaccines recommended for teens and preteens, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

U.S. Government officials and Congressional lawmakers, along with drug industry and doctors' groups, are scrambling to find remedies for critical shortages in a number of drugs that treat life-threatening illnesses, including bacterial infection and several forms of cancer.