Recently, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the first phase of an exciting new era in its web presence:

• Radical redesign of its home page.
• More ways to find information–by topic, A to Z list, popularity, lifestage, and more.
• Improved search engine.
• New topic “gateway” pages, such as Healthy Living. 
• 2.0 touches such as RSS, tag clouds, and blogs.

It holds great promise to make science-based health information easier to access than ever.  And I daresay it’s revolutionary for a federal government website. Remarkable when you think about the staggering amount of useful information that CDC houses–everything from outbreak updates to AIDS prevention to swimming safety. 

CDC 2.0 takes public health to the next level, indeed.