Oklahoma City-County Health Department

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The Child Guidance program at OCCHD will conduct Developmental Screenings at some Metro Area Libraries during May. The child Developmental Screenings are also offered at OCCHD’s main facility five days a week. The screenings are available for children from birth through five years old. Find out where and when!

Wellness Now and OCCHD are offering a new round of free Total Wellness classes beginning in May. The classes are designed to help people change their exercise and eating habits so that they lose weight and keep the pounds off – and the approach has a proven track record. READ MORE

Wellness Now and OCCHD invites all citizens, schools, organizations and businesses to join us for the Rethink Your Drink OKC Challenge – by significantly reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages – or giving them up altogether. READ MORE

An estimated 29.1 million adults (12.7 percent) have been diagnosed with asthma in their lifetimes, and 18.7 million (8.2 percent) still had asthma, according to 2010 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force today announced it recommends team-based care (TBC) for improving blood pressure control on the basis of strong evidence of effectiveness.

The supplement includes new data from the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), which tracks important foodborne illnesses trends and provides information used to assess the impact of food safety initiatives on the burden of foodborne illness.

Young adults are increasing their risk for developing skin cancer, according to two studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute.