CDC Telebriefing: Potentially Preventable Deaths from the Five Leading Causes of Death

Media Advisory

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Contact: Media Relations
(404) 639-3286

What

Release of “Potentially Preventable Deaths from the Five Leading Causes of Death — United States, 2008–2010” published in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Who

Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

When

Thursday, May 1, 2014 at Noon ET (Content is embargoed until Thursday, May 1st at 1pm ET)

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Transcript
A transcript of this telebriefing will be available following the briefing at www.cdc.gov/media.

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